ساقی نامہ

خودی کی یہ ہے منزل اولیںمسافر! یہ تیرا نشیمن نہیں

English translation

Is nothing but the Self’s initial stage. O traveller, it is not your final goal.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 89 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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