مسلم
حق نے عالم اس صداقت کے لیے پیدا کیااور مجھے اس کی حفاظت کے لیے پیدا کیا
English translation
God created the universe for this Truth and created me for its guardianship.
(Allusion to the Holy Qur’an 51:56. True service to God implies firm belief in His Tawhid and other attributes, not only in words but by affirmation with the heart and by deeds in His cause and in the service of humanity as is required by the Holy Qur’an.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 18 in “مسلم” (The Muslim) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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