موٹر
مینا مدام شورش قلقل سے پا بہ گللیکن مزاج جام خرام آشنا خموش
English translation
The decanter always walks on embers* due to gurgling, but the nature of the gentle-moving wine-cup is quiet.
* Walking on embers or fire is an expression to indicate walking under difficult conditions.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “موٹر” (The Motor Car) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۵ / ۶