ساقی نامہ
ہوا جب اسے سامنا موت کاکٹھن تھا بڑا تھامنا موت کا
English translation
When it found itself face to face with death, it learned that it was hard to ward it off.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 63 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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