غزل
وہ بزم عیش ہے مہمان یک نفس دو نفسچمک رہے ہیں مثال ستارہ جس کے ایاغ
English translation
These revels do not last for long, like guests they stay for a breath or so: The bowls of wine that glint like stars, are soon deprived of gloss and glow.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
اياغ: پیالہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “غزل” (Ghazal) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵