ساقی نامہ
فروزاں ہے سینے میں شمع نفسمگر تاب گفتار کہتی ہے، بس
English translation
Breath’s candle is alight within my breast, but my power of utterance cries halt.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 98 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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