جوی آب

بنگر کہ جوی آب چہ مستانہ میرودمانند کہکشان بگریبان مرغزار

English translation

Behold the stream! How merrily it flows right through the meadow, like the Milky Way!

Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 16 in “⁨جوی آب⁩” (The Stream) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

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