ساقی نامہ
حقیقت خرافات میں کھو گئییہ امت روایات میں کھو گئی
English translation
The truth has been lost in absurdities, and in traditions is this ummah rooted still.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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.
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