قطرۂ آب
ز موج سبک سیر من زادہ ئیز من زادہ ئی در من افتادہ ئی
English translation
It was out of my waves that you arose. Born of me, you come back to me, come back to be a part of me.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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