ساقی نامہ
تری آگ اس خاک داں سے نہیںجہاں تجھ سے ہے، تو جہاں سے نہیں
English translation
The fire that is you has not come out of this heap of dust. You have not come out of this world; it has come out of you.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
خاک داں: مٹی کا گھر ، مراد ہے یہ دنیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 90 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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