ساقی نامہ

الجھ کر سلجھنے میں لذت اسےتڑپنے پھٹرکنے میں راحت اسے

English translation

Life loves to tie up knots and then unravel them. Its pleasure lies in throbbing and in fluttering.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 62 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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