Saqi Quotes

Fareb-e-nazar hai sakoon-o-sabaat Tarapta hai har zarra-e-qayanaat Thehrata Nahin Karwaan-E-Wajood Ke Har Lehza Hai Taza Shaan E Wajood Samjhta Hai Tu Raaz Hai Zindagi Faqat Zauq-E-Parwaaz Hai Zindagi Allama Iqbal Steadiness is a deception from our eyes, Every particle in this universe pulsates with a revolution. Caravan of the existence does not rest, Every moment life renews itself. You might think life is a mystery, Whereas life is merely a flight of desires. *Translation by Jasz Gill

Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt

saw my sweetheart wandering about the house; he had taken a rebec and was playing a melody. With a plectrum like fire he was playing a sweet melody, drunken and dissolute and charming from the Magian wine. He was invoking the saqi in the air of Iraq2 ; the wine was his object, the saqi was his excuse. The moonfaced saqi pitcher in his hand, entered from a corner and set it in the middle. He filled the first cup with that flaming wine; did you ever see water sending out flames? He set it on his hand for the sake of the lovers, then prostrated and kissed the threshold. My sweetheart seized it from him and quaffed the wine; flames from that wine went running over his face. He was beholding his own beauty, and saying to the evil eye, "Never has there been, nor shall there come in this age, another like me.