ساقی نامہ
خودی کے نگہباں کو ہے زہر نابوہ ناں جس سے جاتی رہے اس کی آب
English translation
To one who treasures his self, bread won at the cost of self-respect is gall.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 83 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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