آشنا ہر خار را از قصۂ ما ساختی
پرتو حسن تو می افتد برون مانند رنگصورت می پردہ از دیوار مینا ساختی
English translation
Like colour the reflection of Your beauty shines through the glass. You have made of the goblet’s wall a screen for Yourself, just like wine.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “آشنا ہر خار را از قصۂ ما ساختی” (Aashna har khaar ra az qissa-e-ma saakhti) 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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