حضرت انسان
یہی فرزند آدم ہے کہ جس کے اشک خونیں سےکیا ہے حضرت یزداں نے دریاوں کو طوفانی
English translation
This is Adam’s son, from his tears of blood; the God gave to rivers a taste for flood.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “حضرت انسان” (Revered Human) in the section The Amanuensis of Mullah Zaighum, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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