جوی آب

یکسان چو سیل کردہ نشیب و فراز رااز کاخ شاہ و بارہ ہ کشت و چمن گذشت

English translation

Made one, like a torrent, each hollow and eminence, went over the king’s palace and rampart and field and orchard.

Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan

About this couplet

This is couplet 14 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 poem

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