ساقی نامہ

کشیری کہ با بندگی خو گرفتہبتی می تراشد ز سنگ مزاری

English translation

But oh! This poor Kashmiri who, in slavery born and bred, is busy carving idols from the tombstones of the dead.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Urdu translation

کشمیر ی جو غلامی کا عادی ہو کر سنگ مزار سے بت تراشتا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 16 of 20 in “⁨ساقی نامہ⁩” (Sakinama) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

۱۶ / ۲۰