I Am Seeing 'That Man' Who Will Free You From Slavery (Prediction by Allama Iqbal)

می رسد مردے کہ زنجیر غلاماں بشکند  - زبورعجم

Few months ago, Oriya Maqbool Jaan wrote an article 'Zanjeerain Tootne Wali Hain'. He said: 'Sufi Saints are seeing an individual who will become the center of hopes, prayers and wills of this nation very soon.' & then he quoted a couplet/shair of Allama Iqbal

می رسد مردے کہ زنجیر غلاماں بشکند
دیدہ ام از روزن دیوار زندان شما

'That Man is coming who will break the chains of slaves, I am looking him from top windows of the prison's wall'

When we searched, we found this couplet in Book 'Zabur-e-Ajam' (Persian Psalms), First read the extract from Oriya Sahib's Article then this couplet from Zabur-e-Ajam.

Allama Iqbal's Persian poetry is full of future predictions. Here this couplet is presented along with complete Ghazal, Other couplets are really eyeopener for the youth of Pakistan.

Book: Zabur-e-Ajam: Part 2, Ghazal 57 (Couplet No. 6)

Please also read this at Allama Iqbal Poetry website here

English Translation:

1. Like a tulip’s flame I burn, In your presence as I turn;
    By my life, and yours, I swear Youth of Persia (Non-Arab) ever fair!
2. I have dived, and dived again, With my thoughts into life’s brain
    Until I prevailed to find, Every secret of your mind.
3. Sun and moon—I gazed on these, Far beyond the Pleiades (Star Cluster),
    And rebuilt a sanctuary, In your infidelity.
4. I have twisted well the blade, Till its edge was sharper made;
    Pale the gleam and lusterless, Wasted in your wilderness.
5. My thought’s images dispense, To the Orient’s indigence
    The bright ruby that I gain, From your mines of Badakhshan.

6. Comes the man, to free at last, Slaves confined in fetters fast;
    Through the windows in the wall, Of your prison I see all.

7. Make a ring about me now; In my Heart fire’s aglow
    That your forebears lit one day, Things of water and of clay.