زندگی و عمل
ساحل افتادہ گفت گرچہ بسی زیستمہیچ نہ معلوم شد آہ کہ من چیستمموج ز خود رفتہ ئی تیز خرامید و گفتھستم اگر میروم گر نروم نیستم
English translation
‘I have lived a long, long while’, said a fallen shore; ‘What I am know as ill as I knew of yore.’
Then swiftly advanced wave from the Sea upshot; ‘If I roll, I am’, it said; ‘if I rest, I am not.’
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “زندگی و عمل” (Life And Action) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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