سوامی رام تیرتھ
ہم بغل دریا سے ہے اے قطرہ بے تاب توپہلے گوہر تھا، بنا اب گوہر نایاب تو
English translation
O Impatient drop! You are in the bosom of the sea; you were a pearl earlier, now you are an invaluable pearl.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “سوامی رام تیرتھ” (Swamy Ram Tirath) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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