مدرسہ
فیض فطرت نے تجھے دیدہ شاہیں بخشاجس میں رکھ دی ہے غلامی نے نگاہ خفاش
English translation
With free hand Nature has bestowed on you the eyes of hawk so keen; but bondage has replaced them with the eyes, of bat, devoid of sheen.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خفاش: چمگادڑ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “مدرسہ” (The School) 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 poem۴ / ۵