بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید

فزون قبیلۂ آن پختہ کار باد کہ گفتچراغ راہ حیات است جلوۂ امید

English translation

May the tribe increase of that sagacious man who said that the light of hope is a torch on life’s path.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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

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