قطرۂ آب
گہر شو در آغوش قلزم بزیفروزان تر از ماہ و انجم بزی
English translation
Become a pearl and be lodged in the depths of me – My moon, my star, as bright as those of the sky are.’
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 11 in “قطرۂ آب” (The Raindrop And The Sea) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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