سرگزشت آدم
لگی نہ میری طبیعت ریاض جنت میںپیا شعور کا جب جام آتشیں میں نے
English translation
I did not feel attachment to the garden of Paradise, when I drank the fiery cup of Intellection.*
* The process of comprehension of all things as taught by God and is the criterion for Man's distinction from other of God's creation such as angels. Endowed with such a faculty Man was sent to the earth to populate it and maintain its order and beauty as created by God. According to the Holy Qur'an the emigration of at Adam A.S. was not a punishment but a responsibility bestowed by God on him for which he had been prepared and pre ordained.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
جام آتشيں: تیز شراب کا پیالہ ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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