ساقی نامہ

خودی شیر مولا، جہاں اس کا صیدزمیں اس کی صید، آسماں اس کا صید

English translation

God’s lion is the self; its quarry are both earth and sky.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 92 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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