انسان اور بزم قدرت
میرے بگڑے ہوئے کاموں کو بنایا تو نےبار جو مجھ سے نہ اٹھا وہ اٹھایا تو نے
English translation
You have put my disordered affairs in order. You have shouldered the burden which I could not bear.*
* This is an allusion to the Holy Qur'an 59:21, according to which, in his capacity of being the custodian of the Holy Qur'an, Man has exhibited higher strength and fortitude than the mountains which are proverbial for their height, strength and firmness.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 of 20 in “انسان اور بزم قدرت” (Man And Nature's Assemblage) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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