فتادی از مقام کبریائےحضور دون نھادان چہرہ سائے
You had fallen then from a godly place,To courts of mean men you sought a close face.
تو شاہینی ولیکن خویشتن رانگیری تا بدام خود نیائے
Thou art a hawk, to self you cannot get,Until you are caught in thy self’s own net.
From Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) (1938) by Allama Muhammad Iqbal · verified text, Iqbal Academy Pakistan
