ساقی نامہ

مذاق دوئی سے بنی زوج زوجاٹھی دشت و کہسار سے فوج فوج

English translation

Because of its love of duality, it sorted all things out in pairs, and then arose, host after host, from mountains and from wilderness.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Word meanings

زوج زوج: جوڑا جوڑا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 65 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

۶۵ / ۹۹