جوی آب

از سنگریزہ نغمہ گشاید خرام اوسیمای او چو آینہ بیرنگ و بی غبار

English translation

From the pebbles its graceful motion music strikes; its brows chaste and unsullied like the mirror!

Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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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