ساقی نامہ

خودی کیا ہے، راز درون حیاتخودی کیا ہے، بیداری کائنات

English translation

What is the self? Life’s inner mystery, the universe’s waking up.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 71 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.

Read it in the poem

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