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پرواز Parvaz

Nazm by Allama Muhammad Iqbal علامہ محمد اقبال (1877–1938) · 4 verses

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کہا درخت نے اک روز مرغِ صحرا سے

ستم پہ غم کدۂ رنگ و بو کی ہے بنیاد

Kaha darakht ne ik roz murgh-e-sahra se

Sitam pe gham-kada-e-rang o bu ki hai buniyad

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خدا مجھے بھی اگر بال و پر عطا کرتا

شگفتہ اور بھی ہوتا یہ عالمِ ایجاد

Khuda mujhe bhi agar baal o par ata karta

Shagufta aur bhi hota ye aalam-e-ijad

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دیا جواب اسے خوب مرغِ صحرا نے

غضب ہے، داد کو سمجھا ہوا ہے تو بیداد

Diya javab use khub murgh-e-sahra ne

Ghazab hai, daad ko samjha hua hai tu bedad

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جہاں میں لذتِ پرواز حق نہیں اس کا

وجود جس کا نہیں جذبِ خاک سے آزاد

Jahan mein lazzat-e-parvaz haq nahin us ka

Vujud jis ka nahin jazb-e-khak se azad

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Source: Bal-e-Jibril (1935) — nazm

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About this nazm

A tree complains to a desert bird that the world is built on injustice: had God given it wings too, creation would bloom even more. The bird answers that the tree mistakes a gift for a wrong, because the joy of flight belongs only to one whose being is free of the pull of the earth.

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