از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را
رمز حیات جوئی جز در تپش نیابیدر قلزم آرمیدن ننگ است آب جو را
English translation
The secret of life, if you want to know it, lies in restlessness. It would be shameful for a stream to go on resting in the sea.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 7 in “از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را” (Az ma begu salaami aan turk tand khoo ra) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۷