ساقی نامہ
کرن چاند میں ہے، شرر سنگ میںیہ بے رنگ ہے ڈوب کر رنگ میں
English translation
It is a ray of light in the moon and a spark in stone. It dwells in colours, but is colourless itself.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 79 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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