سختیاں کرتا ہوں دل پر، غیر سے غافل ہوں میں
ہے مری ذلت ہی کچھ میری شرافت کی دلیلجس کی غفلت کو ملک روتے ہیں وہ غافل ہوں میں
English translation
My disgrace itself is the demonstration of my nobility; I am the negligence which the angels ardently desire.
(The whole purpose of the Creation of the universe was to create Man, who is the master-piece of the creation, and the master-piece of the human elegance is the person of the Holy Prophet S.A.W. There is a Hadith to the effect that God would not have created the universe if He had not intended to create the Holy Prophet S.A.W.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “سختیاں کرتا ہوں دل پر، غیر سے غافل ہوں میں” (Sakhtiyan karta hoon dil par, ghair se ghaafil hoon main) 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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