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Muslim / Sufi
20th Century

About Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Timeline (1877 - 1938)

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English version by
Naeem Siddiqui

Original Language
Urdu

O Cup-bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee; (from Baal-i-Jibreel)

Themes
  Death
  Lover and Beloved
  Moon
  Night
  Wine

 

Recommended Books

The Ardent Pilgrim: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Mohammed Iqbal, by Iqbal Singh
Poems From Iqbal: Renderings In English Verse With Comparative Urdu Text, by Allama Muhammad Iqbal / Translated by V. G. Kiernan

O Cup-bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee;
Let me gain the place my soul desires.

My lyrical vein was all but dried up, still
The sheik decrees that, too, should be choked to death.

No trail now blazes in new fields of thought,
But blind slaves of sufies and mullahs survive.

Who snatched away the piercing sword of love?
Knowledge is left with an empty sheath alone.

With a luminous soul the power of song is life;
With a darkened soul that power is eternal death.

A full moon glistens in Thy brimful cup;
Deprive me not of its silver beams at night.

 

 

 

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