What Is Man Poem by Ravi Kopra

What Is Man



O skies! I am not afraid of your God
I fear man on this earth (Anon)

Every task isn't easy, some are hard
But harder it is for man to be a man (Ghalib)

Animal like men were God's angels from heaven
Now they are devils from hell in hundreds of forms (Altaf Hussain Hali)

Man is a like a bubble of water
No one knows when would it burst (Molvi Abud-Ur-Raza Raza)

A time will come in this world
When man will search for another man (Fana Nizami Kanpuri)

Man evolved out of angels
It was a hard task to be so (Altaf Hussain Hali)

Name plates boasted of dwellers' statuses
I could not find a man in any of the houses (Bashir Badr)

Thousands of faces but not a single real man
In what a wretched world I happened to be here (Shahzad Ahmad)

You told lies. No stick by them 'Zafar'
A man should be a man of character (Zafar Iqbal)

How can you fall in love with God
He himself hated man and kicked him out of heaven (Naresh Kumar Shad)

Never ever think man is simple. He appeared
After hiding for millions of years in dust (Mir Taqi Mir)

'Mir' miyan, you could be an angel
But it is hard to be a man (Mir Taqi Mir)

I keep on changing with seasons
I am man. Don't ever believe me (Asim Wasti)

I am resting on the way. Consider me a mile stone
I will become a man after facing troubles (Bekhud Dehlvi)

What a peaceful incident!
Man has forgotten man (Juan Eliya)

Who will ever think of him as a man
He doesn't believe in God who made the world (Saba Akbarabadi)

Time never stays still
It behaves like man (Gulzar)

Here man doesn't matter, only his apearance
Give me big goblets but with little wine

Value a man only by his virtues 'Zafar'. See if he
forgets God in happiness, and in anger not afraid of him (Bahadur Shah Zafar)

Sunday, March 4, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: man
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Translation of couplets on man from Urdu poetry by famous poets mentioned in parentheses.
The original couplets in Urdu can be read at rekhta dot com on the web.
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