ساقی نامہ

تو ہے فاتح عالم خوب و زشتتجھے کیا بتاوں تری سرنوشت

English translation

You are the conqueror of this world of good and evil. How can I tell you the whole of your long history?

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 96 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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