خضرراہ

اپنی دنیا آپ پیدا کر اگر زندوں میں ہےسر آدم ہے، ضمیر کن فکاں ہے زندگی

English translation

Create your own world if you claim to be among the living; the secret of Adam and the object of ‘Kun fikoon’* is life.
(Reference to the Holy Qur’an 6:73 in which God describes the creation of the universe as His Will and Command. As the Holy Qur’an has repeatedly said the creation of the universe is purposeful. That purpose was the eventual creation of Man as the master-piece of His creation and Man’s subsequent perfection into ‘perfect man’ (Allamah Iqbal’s Mard-i-Kamil) in the personality of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.). This is supported by a Hadith to the effect that ‘God would not have created the universe if He had not created me’. God also created the Holy Qur’an for the guidance of Man with which every person can be perfected…)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

سر آدم: انسان کی تخلیق کا راز۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 26 of 85 in “⁨خضرراہ⁩” (The Traveler’s Guide) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۲۶ / ۸۵