کہا اقبال نے شيخ حرم سے
English title: Iqbal said to the Shaykh of the Ka‘bah
کہا اقبال نے شيخ حرم سےتہ محراب مسجد سو گيا کون
Iqbal said to the Shaykh of the Ka‘bah: | ‘Who went to sleep under the very arch in the mosque?’
ندا مسجد کي ديواروں سے آئيفرنگي بت کدے ميں کھو گيا کون؟
A voice sounded from the walls of the mosque: | ‘Who became lost in the idol‐house of the West?’
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — کہا اقبال نے شيخ حرم سے — 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