اسیری
ہر کسی کی تربیت کرتی نہیں قدرت، مگرکم ہیں وہ طائر کہ ہیں دام وقفس سے بہرہ مند
English translation
However, not everyone gets trained by nature; only an odd bird is prosperous in imprisonment:
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “اسیری” (Imprisonment) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴