سرگزشت آدم
لہو سے لال کیا سینکڑوں زمینوں کوجہاں میں چھیڑ کے پیکار عقل و دیں میں نے
English translation
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.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پيکار عقل و ديں: عقل اور دین کی جنگ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 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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