ساقی نامہ
یہ عالم، یہ بت خانۂ چشم و گوشجہاں زندگی ہے فقط خورد و نوش
English translation
This idol-house of eye and ear, in which to live is but to eat and drink,
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 88 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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