مومن
جچتے نہیں کنجشک و حمام اس کی نظر میںجبریل و سرافیل کا صیاد ہے مومن
English translation
To hunt the sparrow and the dove he does not like and does not love, he much aspires his noose to cast on angels great and hold it fast.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
کنجشک و حمام: چڑیا اور کبوتر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “مومن” (Believer) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴