سرگزشت آدم
کیا اسیر شعاعوں کو، برق مضطر کوبنادی غیرت جنت یہ سر زمیں میں نے
English translation
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.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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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