ساقی نامہ
ازل سے ہے یہ کشمکش میں اسیرہوئی خاک آدم میں صورت پذیر
English translation
Since time’s beginning it was struggling to emerge, and finally emerged in the dust that is man.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 81 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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