قطرۂ آب
تماشای شام و سحر دیدہ ئیچمن دیدہ ئی دشت و در دیدہ ئی
English translation
For all your smallness, you have had experiences which were great. You have watched dawn and evening alternate. You have seen orchard, plain and glade.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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