وطنیت
اس دور میں مے اور ہے، جام اور ہے جم اورساقی نے بنا کی روش لطف و ستم اور
English translation
In this age the wine, the cup, even Jam is different. The cup-bearer started different ways of grace and tyranny.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 12 in “وطنیت” (Nationalism) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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