ساقی نامہ

فضا نیلی نیلی، ہوا میں سرورٹھہرتے نہیں آشیاں میں طیور

English translation

The breezes blow intoxicatingly in a blue sky, so that the birds do not feel like remaining in their nests and fly about.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Word meanings

طيور: پرندے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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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