خضرراہ
تو نے دیکھا سطوت رفتار دریا کا عروجموج مضطر کس طرح بنتی ہے اب زنجیر دیکھ
English translation
You have witnessed the zenith of the majesty of the river’s flow; now watch how the restless wave becomes a chain in which it gets entangled.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
دریا کی رفتار کی تیزی کی ہیبت۔ سطوت رفتار دريا:
About this couplet
This is couplet 80 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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