ساقی نامہ

وہی ناں ہے اس کے لیے ارجمندرہے جس سے دنیا میں گردن بلند

English translation

He values only bread he gains with head held high.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 84 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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