The Sāqī-nāma (“The Book of the Cup-Bearer”): “What Is to Be Said of the Cup-Bearer — He Drives One Mad”

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The Sāqī-nāma (“The Book of the Cup-Bearer”) — a poem by the respected Muftī Riḍāʾ al-Ḥaqq, written in 1410 AH when Ḥaḍrat Wālā ﵋ came to Dār al-ʿUlūm Zakariyyā. Every stanza closes with the same refrain. [ar]ساقی کا کیا کہنا دیوانہ بناتا ہے ٭ پھر ہوش نہیں رہتا مستانہ بناتا ہے[/ar] "What is to be said of the cup-bearer — he drives one mad; then no sense is left: he makes one…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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