سرگزشت آدم
کبھی صلیب پہ اپنوں نے مجھ کو لٹکایاکیا فلک کو سفر، چھوڑ کر زمیں میں نے
English translation
Sometimes I was nailed to the cross by my own clan. I rose to the Celestial world leaving the earth.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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