خوشامد
معلوم نہیں، ہے یہ خوشامد کہ حقیقتکہہ دے کوئی الو کو اگر 'رات کا شہباز
English translation
If a man calls the owl, ‘The kingly hawk of night’; too hard to find this fact wh'r he tells wrong or right.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “خوشامد” (Flattery) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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