اسرار پیدا

شاہیں کبھی پرواز سے تھک کر نہیں گرتاپر دم ہے اگر تو تو نہیں خطرہ افتاد

English translation

The hawk is never tired of flight, does not drop gasping on the ground; if unwearied it remains on wings, from hunters' dread is safe and sound.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

خطرہ افتاد: گر جانے کا خطرہ۔دم: انتھک۔ پر

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 4 in “⁨اسرار پیدا⁩” (Open Secrets) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

۴ / ۴