ساقی نامہ
فرو فال محمود سے درگزرخودی کو نگہ رکھ، ایازی نہ کر
English translation
Abjure the pomp and might of a Mahmud; preserve your self, do not be an Ayaz.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
فرو فال: شان و شوکت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 85 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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