ساقی نامہ

بجھی عشق کی آگ، اندھیر ہےمسلماں نہیں، راکھ کا ڈھیر ہے

English translation

Gone out is the fire of love. O how sad! The Muslim is a heap of ashes, nothing more.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 26 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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