ساقی
جو بادہ کش تھے پرانے، وہ اٹھتے جاتے ہیںکہیں سے آب بقائے دوام لے ساقی!
English translation
Those who were the old wine-drinkers are gradually departing; bring the water of immortality from somewhere, O cup-bearer.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بقائے دوام: ہمیشہ کی زندگی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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