تصوير و مصور
English title: PAINTING AND THE PAINTER
تصوير
Said the portrait to its Painter: | “My manifestation attests to Thine unbounded Skill;
And yet what a violation of justice it is that | Thou shouldst remain hid from my sight!
مصور
The vision endowed to those that observe find it oppressive: | See for thyself how the spark burnt itself out when it saw the world!
What aught is sight but sadness, gloom, feverishness and self‐torment: | Rest, or thou ignorant (of the mysteries), upon report.
تصوير
What aught is report but the impotence of ratiocination and wisdom? | Vision is the eternal springtide of life.
The hustle and the bustle of the present age does not permit one | To express oneself melodiously.
مصور
Thou doth exist because the Perfection of My Art. | Do not, then, feel cast out in disappointment with Him that hath drawn thee.
I only put one condition if thou wishest to see Me: | Never disappear from thine own sight.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — تصوير و مصور — 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
- 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 Kamal M. Habib; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Kamal M. Habib”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source