بڈھے بلوچ کي نصيحت بيٹے کو
English title: THE ADVICE OF AN OLD BALUCH TO HIS SON
Winds of these wasteland be your love! | Bokhara, Delhi, are worth no more.
Like running water Go where you will: | these desert plains are ours, and Ours are these valleys.
Honour, that high thing in a world of troubling, | Sets on the hermit’s head Darius’ crown.
How Glass is forged flint‐hard—this strange craft they tell of | Learn from some master!
Fortunes of States through individual prowess ripen | Each man one star of their ascendant:
Ocean withholds her treasure when the diver | Groping for pearlshells Clings by land’s margin.
To the Muslim freedom Gained at the price of casting off religion | Makes an ill bargain!
In our world, where once more Civilization | Looses its wild beasts, in one more encounter Spirit and flesh meet;
on the true‐believer’s Manhood God’s trust lies— | the machines of Europe Satan’s alliance.
Who knows the nation’s fates?— | but signs abound, if Muslims are wakeful.
From your buried fathers Ask pride of action; | do not fear—a king may Smile on a beggar.
کیا عجب کہ بادشاہ بھکاری کو نواز دیں۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — بڈھے بلوچ کي نصيحت بيٹے کو — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu portion): published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/armaghan-e-hijaz/01/02.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source
- Poems from Iqbal — First edition, 1955Translation by V. G. Kiernan; Published English translations attributed to V. G. Kiernan; the 231 previously imported exact passages remain, with one additional independently reviewed final standalone line at PDF page 100. Each new locator names its exact passage scope.Source
- English translations in the Armaghan-e-Hijaz digital anthology excerpt — Recovered Urdu and Persian poetry anthology PDF excerpt; publication title and year are not established by the preserved source packet (armaghan-english.pdf, 39 PDF pages).Translation by V.G. Kiernan; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by V.G. Kiernan”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source