آدم
اگر نہ ہو تجھے الجھن تو کھول کر کہہ دوں'وجود حضرت انساں نہ روح ہے نہ بدن
English translation
If you do not get, much disturbed, to you this truth I may unroll that man, God's image, on the earth is neither frame of clay nor soul.
[Syed Akbar Ali Shah]
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “آدم” (Adam) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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