خردہ
یا مثال سیل بی زنہار خیزفارغ از پست و بلند راہ شو
English translation
Or be a headlong flood, which just ignores heights and depressions as it rushes on.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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.
Read it in the poem۱۳ / ۱۸