حدی
شام تو اندر یمنصبح تو اندر قرنریگ درشت وطنپای ترا یاسمناے چو غزال ختنتیزترک گام زن منزل ما دور نیست
English translation
If at dusk you are in Yaman, then at dawn you are in Qaran. Rough sand of your native region is to your feet soft like jasmine. O you fleet gazelle of Khotan! Quicken your pace just a little; journey’s end is not far off.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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.
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