یہی آدم ہے سلطاں بحر و بر کا
کہوں کیا ماجرا اس بے بصر کا
Yahi Adam hai sultan bahr-o-bar ka
Kahun kya majra is be-basar ka
نہ خود بیں نے خدا بیں نے جہاں بیں
یہی شہکار ہے تیرے ہنر کا
Na khud-bin nai khuda-bin nai jahan-bin
Yahi shahkar hai tere hunar ka
Source: Bal-e-Jibril (1935), rubaiyat
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A quatrain addressed to God about man: this Adam is the sultan of land and sea, yet what can one say of him, sightless as he is, seeing neither himself nor God nor the world; and this is the masterpiece of Your art.
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