ظلام بحر میں کھو کر سنبھل جا
ظلام بحر میں کھو کر سنبھل جاتڑپ جا، پیچ کھا کھا کر بدل جانہیں ساحل تری قسمت میں اے موجابھر کر جس طرف چاہے نکل جا!
English translation
O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas, and change thyself with many a twist and turn.
Thou was not born for the solace of the shore; arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “ظلام بحر میں کھو کر سنبھل جا” (Zalaam-e-bahr mein kho kar sambhal ja) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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