ساقی نامہ
ہری شاخ ملت ترے نم سے ہےنفس اس بدن میں ترے دم سے ہے
English translation
The millat’s tree is green thanks to your sap: You are its body’s breath.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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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