Wrote a blog in October 2009 about one
of my all time favorite book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach, at
that moment and earlier I really missed
that this work was so much resonating with Iqbal’s poetry, just check this:
"When Jonathan Seagull joined the Flock
on the beach, it was full night. He was dizzy and terribly
tired. Yet in delight he flew a loop to landing, with a snap
roll just before touchdown. When they hear of it, he thought, of
the Breakthrough, they’ll be wild with joy. How much more there
is now to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and
back to the fishing boats, there’s a reason to life! We
can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of
excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn
to fly!
and precision flying is a step toward
expressing our real nature."
See how this resonates with Iqbal's poetry:
ہر اک مقام سے
آگے مقام ہے تیرا
حیات ذوقِ سفر کے سوا کچھ اور نہیں
تہی زندگی سے نہیں یہ فضائیں
یہاں سینکڑوں آسماں اور بھی ہیں
قناعت نہ کر عالمِ رنگ و بوپر
چمن اور بھی آشیاں اور بھی ہیں
تو شاہیں ھے پرواز ھے کام تیرا
ترے سامنے آسماں اور بھی ہیں
