ساقی نامہ
مری ناو گرداب سے پار کریہ ثابت ہے تو اس کو سیار کر
English translation
I am a boat in a whirlpool, stuck in one place. Rescue me and grant me mobility.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
ثابت: رکی ہوئی، ساکن۔ناؤ: کشتی۔سيار: متحرک۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 35 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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