جاوید سے
اے جان پدر! نہیں ہے ممکنشاہیں سے تدرو کی غلامی
English translation
My darling son, I see no chance at all that hawk will like to turn a pheasant's thrall.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 33 in “جاوید سے” (To Javaid) 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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