امتحان
کہا پہاڑ کی ندی نے سنگ ریزے سےفتادگی و سرا فگندگی تری معراج!
English translation
Thus mountain stream to pebble spake: ‘This lowly state for height you take.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
فتادگی: ایک جگہ پڑے رہنا، عاجزی۔سرا فگندگی: سر جھکانا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “امتحان” (Examination) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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