جوی آب
ما را کہ راہ از تنک آبی نبردہ ایماز دستبرد ریگ بیابان نگاہ دار
English translation
Stricken with drought, we have fallen by the way; protect us from the pillage of the sandy waste!’
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 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.
Read it in the poem۱۰ / ۱۶