سرگزشت آدم

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

English translation

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.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 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.

Read it in the poem

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