Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Iqbal and God.

In 1931 Atiya Faizy (Lou Salome of Iqbal's life) arranged a tea party for Allama Iqbal in Mumbai.The party was attended by many intellectuals of India,during the party discussion turned to 'Afterlife' and the concept of immortality.Many people didn't agree with Iqbal's orthodox position on 'immortal life'.Allama came up with one of his beautiful shair.He said

'CHNAAN BEZI KEI AGAR MARAG MAAST MARG DOWAAM
KHUDAA ZIKERDOU KHUD SHERUMSAAAR TER GARDOU

Soon Iqbal realized that not many of the people in the party understood persian ,he translated his shair on demand.It goes something like that,

Live So beautifully
That if death is the end of all
God himself may be put to shame
For having ended thy career


Beautiful!


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