ساقی نامہ
زمانہ کہ زنجیر ایام ہےدموں کے الٹ پھیر کا نام ہے
English translation
Time, chain of days and nights, is nothing but a name for breathing in and breathing out.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 69 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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