سرگزشت آدم
سنایا ہند میں آ کر سرود ربانیپسند کی کبھی یوناں کی سر زمیں میں نے
English translation
Coming to India I played the Divine Orchestra.* Sometimes I chose the land of Greece.
* Allusion to the large number of pious persons who preached Tawhid of God and that of mankind in India.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سرود رباني: مراد ہے اللہ کا پیغام۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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