موج دریا
مضطرب رکھتا ہے میرا دل بے تاب مجھےعین ہستی ہے تڑپ صورت سیماب مجھے
English translation
My impatient heart keeps me relentlessly restless; like mercury agitation is the essence of life to me.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سيماب: پارہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “موج دریا” (Wave of the River) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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