Re: Meaning of this verse
I won't stop you from translating Iqbal, but let me strongly advise you to refrain from translating anything from the Quran since you neither know the history nor understand the messages that it contains. Do not get yourself in any trouble. There are lots of other things to translate.
really?
and how, i might ask, can you know that?
is it really necessary to put somone else down just to prove one's own scholorship? the person who opened the thread wanted to know if somone else understood the couplet he din't. Everybody tried to explain it in their own way including Omar. Now wot right does anyone have to ridicule his interpretation? You might not like it, and you might not agree with it and thats fine. But if you read the last page, you'll see that his interpretation was not only challanged but ridiculed and then he was challenged to translate other poems as if this was a compitition goin on. I did not read the unedited version of his post but it seems to me that the provocation wasn't one sided.
I don't know if wots goin on here is customary in this forum caz i hardly ever post down here. anyways my two cents.