دعا

پھر وہ شراب کہن مجھ کو عطا کہ میںڈھونڈ رہا ہوں اسے توڑ کے جام و سبو

English translation

For wine of gnosis I request and ask, to get some dregs I break the cup and glass.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 of 11 in “⁨دعا⁩” (Prayer) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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