ساقی نامہ
اتر کر جہان مکافات میںرہی زندگی موت کی گھات میں
English translation
So it descended to this world, where retribution is the law, and lay in wait for death.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 64 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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