بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است

بیا کہ من ز خم پیر روم آوردممی سخن کہ جوان تر ز بادہ عنبی است

English translation

Come, I have brought from the vat of the guide of Rum the wine of poesy, much younger than the wine of grapes.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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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