ساقی نامہ
اسی سے ہوئی ہے بدن کی نمودکہ شعلے میں پوشیدہ ہے موج دود
English translation
It is life that puts bodies forth, just as a whiff of smoke becomes a flame.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 45 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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