پیام
پیر مغاں! فرنگ کی مے کا نشاط ہے اثراس میں وہ کیف غم نہیں، مجھ کو تو خانہ ساز دے
English translation
O Tavern-keeper! Pleasure is the only effect of West’s wine; it does not have pleasure of affliction, give me the home-made wine.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
نشاط: خوشی۔پیرِ مغاں: شراب خانے کا مالک۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 7 in “پیام” (The Message) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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