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Muhammad Iqbal

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THE SPHERE OF MARS

The Martians


















































































































































































For an instant I closed
my eyes in the waters,
for a little in the
depths I broke away from myself,
1810
bore my baggage towards
another world,
with another time,
another space.
Our sun reached its
horizons,
creating a different
kind of night and day.
The body is a stranger
to the spirit’s wont and way
1815
which dwells in time,
yet is a stranger to time.
Our soul accords with
every fire there is,
its time rejoices in
every day there is;
it grows not old with
the flight of time,
the days illumine the
world through its light.
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The ceaseless
revolution of day and night from it derives;
make it your journey,
for the very world springs from it.
A broad meadow with a
tall observatory
whose telescope lassoed
the Pleiades—
is this the nine-domed
retreat of Khizr,
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or is it the dark
territory of our earth?
Now I searched for the
bounds of its immensity,
anon I gazed upon the
expanse of heaven.
The Sage of Rum, that
guide of the visionaries,
spoke: ‘Behold,
this world is Mars;
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like our world, it is a
talisman of colours and scents,
having cities and
habitations, palaces and streets.
Its dwellers are
skilled in many arts, like the Franks,
excelling us in
physical and psychical sciences.
They have greater
dominion over time and place
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because they are
cleverer at the science of space;
they have so penetrated
into its essence
that they have seen its
every twist and turn.
Earth’s
dwellers-their hearts are bound to water and clay;
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in this world, body is
in bondage to heart.
When a heart makes its
lodging in water and clay,
with water and clay it
makes what it wills;
intoxication, joy,
happiness are at the disposal of the soul,
the soul determines the
body’s absence and presence.
In our world, existence
is a duality,
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soul and body, the one
invisible, the other visible;
for terrestrials, soul
and body are bird and cage,
whereas the thought of
Martians is unitive.
When the day of
separation arrives for any,
he becomes livelier
from the flame of separation;
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a day or two before the
day of death
he proclaims his
decease to his fellows.
Their soul is not
nourished by the body,
therefore it has not
become habituated to the body.
Death is to draw in the
body,
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death is to flee from
the world into one’s self.
This discourse is too
high for your thought
because your soul is
dominated by your body.
You must wander here
for a moment or two;
God gives not such an
opportunity to everyone.’
1860

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