کی حق سے فرشتوں نے اقبال کی غمازی
سکھلائی فرشتوں کو آدم کی تڑپ اس نےآدم کو سکھاتا ہے آداب خداوندی!
English translation
To throngs of Heaven he has taught, like man, to fret and pine. To clay-made man he fain would teach the wont and mode divine.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “کی حق سے فرشتوں نے اقبال کی غمازی” (Ki haq se farishton ne Iqbal ki gamaazi) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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