ساقی نامہ

بہت اس نے دیکھے ہیں پست و بلندسفر اس کو منزل سے بڑھ کر پسند

English translation

It has seen many ups and downs, but likes to travel rather than to reach the goal;

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 60 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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