جوی آب
وا کردہ سینہ را بہ ہوا ہای شرق و غربدر بر گرفتہ ہمسفران زبون و زار
English translation
It opened its breast to the winds of the East and the West, clasping its weak and wailing fellow travelers.
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 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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