ساقی نامہ

یہ ہے مقصد گردش روزگارکہ تیری خودی تجھ پہ ہو آشکار

English translation

It is the purpose of the revolution of the spheres that your selfhood should be revealed to you.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 95 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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