عشرت امروز
مجھے فریفتہ ساقی جمیل نہ کربیان حور نہ کر، ذکر سلسبیل نہ کر
English translation
Do not make me fascinated by the beautiful cup bearer; do not describe the Houri, do not relate the Salsabil’s* story’
* One of the streams of Paradise.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
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