حدی
در تپش آفتابغوطہ زنے در سرابہم بہ شب ماہتابتند روی چون شہابچشم تو نادیدہ خوابتیزترک گام زن منزل ما دور نیست
English translation
When the sun of noontide blazes, you dive into clear mirages; and in moonlit nights’ bright reaches you flash as a comet flashes with an eye that never closes! Quicken your pace just a little; journey’s end is not far off.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 8 in “حدی” (Chant of Camel-Driver) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۸