نہ از ساقی نہ از پیمانہ گفتم
English title: I talk not of bearer nor of bowl hence,
No verified published Urdu translation is available for the Persian verses in this poem yet.
نہ از ساقی نہ از پیمانہ گفتمحدیث عشق بیباکانہ گفتم
I talk not of bearer nor of bowl hence, | This love theme, I say in a frank parlance.
شنیدم نچہ از پاکان امتترا با شوخے رندانہ گفتم
From Holies of Ummah what e’er I hold, | In their own frank style to thee I have told.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — نہ از ساقی نہ از پیمانہ گفتم — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- English translations in the Armaghan-e-Hijaz digital anthology excerpt — Recovered Urdu and Persian poetry anthology PDF excerpt; publication title and year are not established by the preserved source packet (armaghan-english.pdf, 39 PDF pages).Translation by Q.A. Kabir; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Q.A. Kabir”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source