موج دریا
موج ہے نام مرا، بحر ہے پایاب مجھےہو نہ زنجیر کبھی حلقہء گرداب مجھے
English translation
Wave is my name, the sea is fordable to me; the whirlpool's circle would never be a chain to me.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پاياب: تھوڑا پانی جس سے آومی پیدل گزر جائے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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