ساقی نامہ

گراں خواب چینی سنبھلنے لگےہمالہ کے چشمے ابلنے لگے

English translation

The Chinese are awaking from their heavy sleep. Fresh springs are bubbling forth from Himalayan heights.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 17 of 99 in “⁨ساقی نامہ⁩” (The Cupbearer's Epistle) 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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