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سنے کوئی مری غربت کی داستاں مجھ سےبھلایا قصہ پیمان اولیں میں نے

Someone should hear the tale of my emigration.* I ignored the story of the primeval covenant**
* Allusion to the Holy Qur’an 2:30-34, which describes the creation of Adam (A.S.) and his spouse and their transfer to the earth. **Allusion to the Holy Qur’an 3:81. This verse describes the pledge of the prophets to support every prophet of God, not to disregard the prophets who were to appear in the future, not to consider themselves exclusive custodians of the true Faith, and not to oppose the Truth. The pledge of a prophet is binding on his Ummah. However, the human race has betrayed this trust throughout its history except a few righteous people who believed in and testified to the Truth and the message of God as brought by the successive prophets.)

لگی نہ میری طبیعت ریاض جنت میںپیا شعور کا جب جام آتشیں میں نے

I did not feel attachment to the garden of Paradise, when I drank the fiery cup of Intellection.*
* The process of comprehension of all things as taught by God and is the criterion for Man's distinction from other of God's creation such as angels. Endowed with such a faculty Man was sent to the earth to populate it and maintain its order and beauty as created by God. According to the Holy Qur'an the emigration of at Adam A.S. was not a punishment but a responsibility bestowed by God on him for which he had been prepared and pre ordained.)

رہی حقیقت عالم کی جستجو مجھ کودکھایا اوج خیال فلک نشیں میں نے

I remained in pursuit of the Truth of the universe. I exhibited the excellence of elegant thoughts.
(Search for knowledge has been an inseparable part of Man's nature since his creation.)

ملا مزاج تغیر پسند کچھ ایساکیا قرار نہ زیر فلک کہیں میں نے

I got such a change-loving temperament that I did not settle anywhere under the sky.*
* Allusion to the constantly wandering nature of the human race throughout history. It also refers to the constantly changing thought of Man.)

نکالا کعبے سے پتھر کی مورتوں کو کبھیکبھی بتوں کو بنایا حرم نشیں میں نے

Sometimes I removed the stone idols from the Ka'bah. Sometimes I established the idols in the Haram.

کبھی میں ذوق تکلم میں طور پر پہنچاچھپایا نور ازل زیر آستیں میں نے

Sometimes I arrived at Toor in my desire to speak and I concealed the Eternal Light up my sleeve.

کبھی صلیب پہ اپنوں نے مجھ کو لٹکایاکیا فلک کو سفر، چھوڑ کر زمیں میں نے

Sometimes I was nailed to the cross by my own clan. I rose to the Celestial world leaving the earth.

کبھی میں غار حرا میں چھپا رہا برسوںدیا جہاں کو کبھی جام آخریں میں نے

Sometimes I remained hidden in Cave of Hira for years. Sometimes I gave the world the last cup of Divine wine.*
* Allusion to the Last message of God to Man contained in the Holy Qur'an.)

سنایا ہند میں آ کر سرود ربانیپسند کی کبھی یوناں کی سر زمیں میں نے

Coming to India I played the Divine Orchestra.* Sometimes I chose the land of Greece.
* Allusion to the large number of pious persons who preached Tawhid of God and that of mankind in India.)

دیار ہند نے جس دم مری صدا نہ سنیبسایا خطہء جاپان و ملک چیں میں نے

When the people of India paid no heed to my call, I populated the countries of China and Japan.*
* Allusion to the persecution of Buddhists by the idol worshipping, caste-ridden and Brahman-dominated Hindu society, on account of which Buddhism which stood of Tawhid-i-Insaniyat and a caste less society all but disappeared from India. Buddhists migrated to and settled in far off places, including China and Japan.)

بنایا ذروں کی ترکیب سے کبھی عالمخلاف معنی تعلیم اہل دیں میں نے

Sometimes I created the universe by combining elements; I did this against the meanings of priests' preaching.*
* Allusion to the cosmology and astronomy as evolved in Europe during the Renaissance period. The findings of astronomy were considered heretic by the Roman Catholic Church under the influence of the Greek cosmology which had entered Christian thought and had assumed the position of being a part of the Christian religion.)

لہو سے لال کیا سینکڑوں زمینوں کوجہاں میں چھیڑ کے پیکار عقل و دیں میں نے

I stained hundreds of lands with blood when I started the war between Intellect and religion.*
* Allusion to the persecution and bloodshed in the Christendom, due to the differences in belief with the Roman Catholic Church during and after the Reformation.)

سمجھ میں آئی حقیقت نہ جب ستاروں کیاسی خیال میں راتیں گزار دیں میں نے

When I could not understand the reality of stars, I passed sleepless nights in this contemplation.

ڈرا سکیں نہ کلیسا کی مجھ کو تلواریںسکھایا مسئلہ گردش زمیں میں نے

The swords of the Church could not frighten me when I taught the theory of earth's revolution.*
* Allusion to Galileo, the famous Italian scientist who presented the theory of the spherical nature of the earth and its revolution round the sun as opposed to the Greek philosophy which taught the earth to be flat and the center of the universe. The Christian Church was so much influenced by Greek thought that they considered Greek philosophy to be part of the Christian faith. Hence, they declared Galileo a heretic.)

کشش کا راز ہویدا کیا زمانے پرلگا کے آئنہ عقل دور بیں میں نے

I demonstrated the gravity's secret to the world using the far-sighted Intellect's mirror.

کیا اسیر شعاعوں کو، برق مضطر کوبنادی غیرت جنت یہ سر زمیں میں نے

I arrested radiations and the restless electricity. I made the earth the source of envy to Paradise.
(Allusion to the achievements of modern science and technology.)

مگر خبر نہ ملی آہ! راز ہستی کیکیا خرد سے جہاں کو تہ نگیں میں نے

Ah! But I could not reach the Existence' secrets, though I made the world beautiful with my Intellect.

ہوئی جو چشم مظاہر پرست وا آخرتو پایا خانہء دل میں اسے مکیں میں نے

When my materialistic eye opened I found Him lodged in my own heart.