دوزخي کي مناجات
English title: LITANY OF THE DAMNED
Published English translations cover only part of this poem.
اس دير کہن ميں ہيں غرض مند پجاريرنجيدہ بتوں سے ہوں تو کرتے ہيں خدا ياد
پوجا بھي ہے بے سود، نمازيں بھي ہيں بے سودقسمت ہے غريبوں کي وہي نالہ و فرياد
ہيں گرچہ بلندي ميں عمارات فلک بوسہر شہر حقيقت ميں ہے ويرانہء آباد
None of earth’s cities in truth is more than a populous desert, | High though their buildings soar, kissing the sky with their roofs.
تيشے کي کوئي گردش تقدير تو ديکھےسيراب ہے پرويز، جگر تشنہ ہے فرہاد
يہ علم، يہ حکمت، يہ سياست، يہ تجارتجو کچھ ہے، وہ ہے فکر ملوکانہ کي ايجاد
All that there is in that world its rulers’ brains have engendered: | Science and learning are theirs, commerce and practice of State;
اللہ! ترا شکر کہ يہ خطہ پر سوز!سوداگر يورپ کي غلامي سے ہے آزاد
Free of enslavement, Allah be thanked, to the huckster of Europe— | Free is this country of ours, scorched in the furnace of Hell.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — دوزخي کي مناجات — 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
- 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