تو خورشیدی و من سیارۂ تو
تو خورشیدی و من سیارۂ توسراپا نورم از نظارۂ توز آغوش تو دورم ناتماممتو قرآنی و من سی پارۂ تو
English translation
Tojh sey door h’on – namokamil h’on; Tou Qur’an hai aur mein teyra siparah h’on.]
I am a circling planet; Thou my sun, the light that bathes me by Thy glance is thrown:
Far from Thy bosom I imperfect am, thou art the Book, one chapter I alone.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “تو خورشیدی و من سیارۂ تو” in the section The Tulip of Sinai, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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