کوشش ناتمام

سوتوں کو ندیوں کا شوق، بحر کا ندیوں کو عشقموجہء بحر کو تپش ماہ تمام کے لیے

English translation

Springs desire rivers, rivers love the ocean; the ocean wave is in love with the full moon.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 6 in “⁨کوشش ناتمام⁩” (The Unsuccessful Effort) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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