ساقی نامہ

دما دم رواں ہے یم زندگیہر اک شے سے پیدا رم زندگی

English translation

In constant motion is the sea of life. All things display life’s volatility.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 44 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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