اگر بہ بحر محبت کرانہ میخواہی
مرا ز لذت پرواز آشنا کردندتو در فضای چمن آشیانہ میخواہی
English translation
God has taught me how to spring joyously upon the wing; Thou aspirest but to rest cowering in thy meadow’s nest.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “اگر بہ بحر محبت کرانہ میخواہی” (agar ba bahr-e muhabbat karana mikhwahi) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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