خضرراہ
مومیائی کی گدائی سے تو بہتر ہے شکستمور بے پر! حاجتے پیش سلیمانے مبر
English translation
Defeat is better than helplessly begging for momiyai O helpless ant! Do not take your requests to a Sulaiman.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 71 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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