جوی آب

صد جوی دشت و مرغ و کہستان و باغ و راغگفتند اے بسیط زمین با تو سازگار

English translation

A hundred brooks from woods and meadows, from vales and gardens and villas cried: ‘O thou with whom accords the earth’s expanse!

Translated by Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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

۹ / ۱۶