ساقی نامہ

سفر اس کا انجام و آغاز ہےیہی اس کی تقویم کا راز ہے

English translation

Both its beginning and its end are journeying, for constant motion is its being’s law.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Word meanings

تقويم: ثبات، مضبوطی ، استحکام۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 78 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

۷۸ / ۹۹