محاورۂ ما بین خدا و انسان
تبر آفریدی نھال چمن راقفس ساختی طایر نغمہ زن را
English translation
You made an axe for the tree in the garden, and a cage for the songbird.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “محاورۂ ما بین خدا و انسان” (A Dialogue Between God And Man) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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