ساقی نامہ

وہی سجدہ ہے لائق اہتمامکہ ہو جس سے ہر سجدہ تجھ پر حرام

English translation

Worth offering is only that prostration which makes all others forbidden acts.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 86 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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