سرگزشت آدم
دیار ہند نے جس دم مری صدا نہ سنیبسایا خطہء جاپان و ملک چیں میں نے
English translation
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.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 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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