بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است
متاع قافلۂ ما حجازیان بردندولی زبان نگشائی کہ یار ما عربی است
English translation
Men of Hijaz have robbed our caravan of all its goods. But silence! For our friend is from Arabia.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 7 in “بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است” (Bishakh-e-zindagi ma nami ze tashn-e-labi ast) 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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