ساقی نامہ
یہ ثابت بھی ہے اور سیار بھیعناصر کے پھندوں سے بیزار بھی
English translation
It is fixed, yet in motion, straining at the leash to get free of the elements.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 47 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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