کشادہ دست کرم جب وہ بے نیاز کرے
بٹھا کے عرش پہ رکھا ہے تو نے اے واعظ!خدا وہ کیا ہے جو بندوں سے احتراز کرے
English translation
You have confined Him to the Arsh, O preacher! What kind of God would keep away from His people?
(God is Omni-present and transcends time and space. In that way He is close to His people. See the Holy Quran 2:186 and 50:16 to cite only a few verses on this subject.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
احتراز: پرہیز۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 9 in “کشادہ دست کرم جب وہ بے نیاز کرے” (Kushaada dast-e-karam jab woh be-niyaaz kare) in the section The Ghazals 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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