ساقی نامہ

یہی کچھ ہے ساقی متاع فقیراسی سے فقیری میں ہوں میں امیر

English translation

O Saki, these are all my wealth; possessing them, I am rich in my poverty.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 42 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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