ارتقا
مغاں کہ دانہء انگور آب می سازندستارہ می شکنند، آفتاب می سازند
English translation
‘The tavern-keepers making wine from the grape; break the stars and construct the sun.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 7 in “ارتقا” (Evolution) 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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