جوی آب

زی بحر بیکرانہ چہ مستانہ میروددر خود یگانہ از ہمہ بیگانہ میرود

English translation

Towards the shoreless ocean how merrily it flows; linked with itself, unlinked with all, it flows.

Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 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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