ساقی نامہ
خودی جلوہ بدمست و خلوت پسندسمندر ہے اک بوند پانی میں بند
English translation
The self, drunk with display, is also fond of solitude; an ocean in a drop.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 72 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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