بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید

خورم بیاد تنک نوشی امام حرمکہ جز بہ صحبت یاران رازدان نچشید

English translation

I drink in remembrance of that holy person who would not drink wine but with his boon companions.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 6 in “⁨بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید⁩” (Biayaar baadah ke gardoon be kaam ma gardid) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

۲ / ۶