جاوید سے
وہ بحر ہے آدمی کہ جس کاہر قطرہ ہے بحر بیکرانہ
English translation
A man is ocean that is vast and free, its every drop is' like the boundless sea.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 33 in “جاوید سے” (To Javaid) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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