قطرۂ آب
بہ برگ گیاہی بہ دوش سحابدرخشیدی از پرتو آفتاب
English translation
Suspended on a blade of grass or a cloud-flake, you have reflected the sun’s rays.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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