قطرۂ آب
کہ جائی کہ دریاست من کیستم؟گر او ہست حقا کہ من نیستم"
English translation
By God, I am a mere nonentity beside the sea. If it exists, then surely I do not.’
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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