ساقی نامہ
بڑی تیز جولاں، بڑی زورد رسازل سے ابد تک رم یک نفس
English translation
Extremely fleet-footed, it reaches its goal instantly. From time’s beginning to its end is but one moment’s way for it.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
تيز جولاں: تیز چلنے والیزود رس: جلد پہنچنے والی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 68 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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