آواز غيب
English title: A VOICE FROM BEYOND
From the Emperium enquires A voice at dawn: | how did You lose your essential quality Of enquiry and understanding?
How was blunted Your scalpel of research? | Why do you not rend open The hearts of stars?
You deserve to dominate and rule over All that is visible as well as esoteric. | Can a flame be the slave of Dry sticks and grass?
Why are the sun, moon and stars not Under your suzerainty? | Why don’t heavens shudder With a mere glance from you?
True! Even to‐day blood courses Through your veins, | but Your thoughts do not inspire, Nor is your thinking fearless.
An eye which in its vision, Does not imbibe pure virtue | Is capable of seeing, no doubt, But is not all‐seeing.
Not a bit remains in you Of your clear reflection of conscience! | Alas! O you victim of imperialism, Of mullah‐ism and mysticism!
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — آواز غيب — 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 Mustansir Mir; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Mustansir Mir”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.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 Maqbool Elahi; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Maqbool Elahi”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source