خردہ
در جھان مانند جوی کوہساراز نشیب و ہم فراز آگاہ شو
English translation
In this world either be a hill-stream, which observes heights and depressions in its course;
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 18 in “خردہ” (Small-scale, detailed) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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