خردہ
ایکہ گل چیدی منال از نیش خارخار ھم می روید از باد بھار
English translation
O you who plucked a rose, do not complain about the thorn, for like the rose the thorn is born of the spring breeze.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 of 18 in “خردہ” (Small-scale, detailed) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۱۴ / ۱۸