انسان
قدرت کا عجیب یہ ستم ہے!انسان کو راز جو بنایاراز اس کی نگاہ سے چھپایا
English translation
What an ingenious tyranny of Nature it is! Man has been made a seeker of the Secret; The Secret has been concealed from his eyes.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 10 in “انسان” (Mankind) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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