پیام

کوہ را مثل پر کاہ سبک می یابمپر کاہی صفت کوہ گران می بینم

English translation

I find the mountain as light as a tiny blade of grass, and heavy as a mountain seems a blade of grass to me.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Urdu translation

(مغربی تہذیب کے) پہاڑ کو تنکے کی مانند ہلکا پاتا ہوں ، اور پر کاہ کو وزنی پہاڑ دیکھ رہا ہوں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 38 of 45 in “⁨پیام⁩” (A Message (To The West)) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

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