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A verse from Allama Iqbal

You are an eagle, flight is your vocation:تو شاہیں ہے، پرواز ہے کام تیرا

You have other skies stretching out before you.ترے سامنے آسماں اور بھی ہیں

Allama Muhammad Iqbal · Trinity College, Cambridge (m. 1905)

From the world of Urdu

ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے

بہت نکلے مرے ارمان لیکن پھر بھی کم نکلے

hazāroñ ḳhvāhisheñ aisī ki har ḳhvāhish pe dam niklebahut nikle mire armān lekin phir bhī kam nikle

A thousand desires, each one enough to take my breath - many of my longings were granted, and still they were too few.

Mirza Ghalibمرزا غالب1797–1869