محکمات عالم قرا نے: خلافت آدم
آنچہ در آدم بگنجد عالم استآنچہ در عالم نگنجد آدم است
English translation
That which is contained within man is the world, that which is not contained within the world is man.
Urdu translation
عالم انسان میں سما جاتا ہے لیکن انسان عالم میں نہیں سماتا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 37 in “محکمات عالم قرا نے: خلافت آدم” (The Foundations Of The Koranic World Man: God’s Vicegerent) in the section The Sphere of Mecury, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), published in 1932.
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