SAQI*: As I have explained here before in several ghazals SAQI is an Arabic word used for a person who quenches the thirst of worn out and tired travellers. It has been romanticized too by Arabic, Persian and Urdu poets especially Omar Khayyam, Ghalib and Iqbal where the saqi is a caring veiled woman with large beautiful eyes -- who serves wine to the heartbroken men and women at her tavern. No indecency is tolerated at the tavern as compared to the bar where all sorts of unruly and bad behaviour is witnessed and allowed too.
Here, in this ghazal of mine, the Saqi refers to The God Almighty.
