جاوید سے
کنجشک و حمام کے لیے موتہے اس کا مقام شاہبازی
English translation
His hawk-like status can spread general death of sparrows, pigeons all in single breath.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
کنجشک و حمام: چڑیا اور کبوتر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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.
Read it in the poem۲۷ / ۳۳