تمہید
تڑپ رہے ہیں فضاہائے نیلگوں کے لیےوہ پر شکستہ کہ صحن سرا میں تھے خورسند
English translation
The birds, who spite of pinions rent were glad, in nests, for azure sky now feel so sad.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 9 in “تمہید” (The Prologue) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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