عشرت امروز

نہ مجھ سے کہہ کہ اجل ہے پیام عیش و سرورنہ کھینچ نقشہ کیفیت شراب طہور

English translation

You should not tell me, ‘Death is a message of luxury and pleasure’; You should not draw the picture of Sharab-i-Tuhoor's* ecstasy.
(Sharab-i-Tuhoor: This is the holy beverage, or wine of Paradise which, according to the Holy Qur’an is free from the evils of the earthly wines – 47:15; 76:21; 78:35 and 83:25 28.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 7 in “⁨عشرت امروز⁩” (The Delight of Today) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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