ساقی نامہ
یہ موج نفس کیا ہے تلوار ہےخودی کیا ہے، تلوار کی دھار ہے
English translation
What is this whiff of air called breath? A sword and selfhood is that sword’s sharp edge.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 70 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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