ساقی نامہ

اندھیرے اجالے میں ہے تابناکمن و تو میں پیدا، من و تو سے پاک

English translation

It shines in light and darkness both; displayed in individuals, yet free from them.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 73 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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