ساقی نامہ

مجھے عشق کے پر لگا کر اڑامری خاک جگنو بنا کر اڑا

English translation

Lend me the wings of Love and make me fly. Turn my dust to fireflies that flit about.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 28 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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