سرگزشت آدم
سنے کوئی مری غربت کی داستاں مجھ سےبھلایا قصہ پیمان اولیں میں نے
English translation
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.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پيمان اوليں: پہلا عہد، مراد ہے روز ازل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 18 in “سرگزشت آدم” (The Story Of Man) 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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