ساقی نامہ
لبھاتا ہے دل کو کلام خطیبمگر لذت شوق سے بے نصیب
English translation
The preacher’s sermon may beguile your heart, but there is no sincerity, no warmth in it.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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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