ساقی نامہ
سمجھتے ہیں ناداں اسے بے ثباتابھرتا ہے مٹ مٹ کے نقش حیات
English translation
The ignorant think that life’s impress is Ephemeral, but it fades only to emerge anew.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 67 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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