جوی آب
بیتاب و تند و تیز و جگر سوز و بیقراردر ہر زمان بہ تازہ رسید از کہن گذشت
English translation
Passionate and fierce and sharp, restless and heart-inflaming each time it arrived at the New and went beyond the Old.
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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 poem۱۵ / ۱۶