کرمک شبتاب
اے کرمک شب تاب سراپای تو نور استپرواز تو یک سلسلۂ غیب و حضور استآئین ظہور است
English translation
O glow-worm, your whole body is made of the stuff of light. A sequence of its intermittent flashes is your flight – thus flit things in and out of sight.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 9 in “کرمک شبتاب” (The Glow-Worm) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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