ساقی
نشہ پلا کے گرانا تو سب کو آتا ہےمزا تو جب ہے کہ گرتوں کو تھام لے ساقی
English translation
Everyone knows how to throw down people with intoxicants; the fun is to convert the intoxicated one to sanity, O cup-bearer.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “ساقی” (The Bartender (Butler)) 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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