چیستان شمشیر
مثل نگاہ دیدۂ نمناک پاک رودر جوی آب و دامن او تر نمی شود
English translation
And which, like a tear-washed vision, purified by that ablution, is agleam, neat and clean and clear and limpid, with its raiment quite unwetted in midstream.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “چیستان شمشیر” (The Riddle Of The Sword) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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