شير اور خچر
English title: THE LION AND THE MULE
شير
ساکنان دشت و صحرا ميں ہے تو سب سے الگکون ہيں تيرے اب و جد ، کس قبيلے سے ہے تو؟
LION: You are so different and unlike all the other dwellers of the wild and the desert! Who are your parents and ancestors? And what is your tribe?
خچر
ميرے ماموں کو نہيں پہچانتے شايد حضور!وہ صبا رفتار ، شاہي اصطبل کي آبرو
MULE: Perhaps your highness does not know my uncle – my mother’s brother: He gallops like the wind, and is the pride of the royal stable! – Adapted from German.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — شير اور خچر — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Bal-e-Jibril — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — The Lion And The Mule — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Mustansir Mir; English Translation by: Mustansir MirSource