انسان

حیرت آغاز و انتہا ہےآئینے کے گھر میں اور کیا ہے

English translation

Amazing is the alpha and omega of life*: What else is there in the mirror's house?
(Alpha and Omega: Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. This word is also used for the brightest star in a constellation. Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. The phrase is used for the most important person or entity, e.g. The New Testament, The Book of Revelations of Saint John the Divine, Chapter 1:8, in which Issa A.S. is supposed to have said to Saint John in his dream ‘I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.’ In this verse Allamah uses this phrase to show the intrinsic value and elegance of Man, and also the miraculous way in which he was created by God.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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.

Read it in the poem

۳ / ۱۰