ساقی نامہ
رکے جب تو سل چیر دیتی ہے یہپہاڑوں کے دل چیر دیتی ہے یہ
English translation
Should it be stemmed, it would cut open the hills’ hearts and burst the rocks.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
سل: پتھر، چٹان۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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