سرگزشت آدم
کبھی میں غار حرا میں چھپا رہا برسوںدیا جہاں کو کبھی جام آخریں میں نے
English translation
Sometimes I remained hidden in Cave of Hira for years. Sometimes I gave the world the last cup of Divine wine.*
* Allusion to the Last message of God to Man contained in the Holy Qur'an.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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