ساقی نامہ

خودی کا نشیمن ترے دل میں ہےفلک جس طرح آنکھ کے تل میں ہے

English translation

It is in your heart that the Self has its abode, as the sky is reflected in the pupil of the eye.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 82 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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