جوی آب
نا آشنای جلوہ فروشان سبز پوشصحرا برید و سینۂ کوہ و کمر درید
English translation
Unmindful of these green-robed beauty-vendors, it cleft the desert and rent the breast of hill and dale.
Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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