از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را
این نکتہ را شناسد آندل کہ دردمند استمن گرچہ توبہ گفتم نشکستہ ام سبو را
English translation
The point of this will be seen by a sympathetic heart: I swore to drink no more, but did not break the jar of wine.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را” (Az ma begu salaami aan turk tand khoo ra) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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