ساقی نامہ
سفر زندگی کے لیے برگ و سازسفر ہے حقیقت، حضر ہے مجاز
English translation
For travelling is life’s outfit: it is real, while rest is appearance, nothing more.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
حضر: سفر کے بر عکس، ساکن۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 61 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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