خرد ديکھے اگر دل کي نگہ سے
English title: If with the heart’s eye the intellect would see aright
خرد ديکھے اگر دل کي نگہ سےجہاں روشن ہے نور 'لا الہ' سے
If with the heart’s eye the intellect would see aright | This universe is illuminated with Allah’s light.
فقط اک گردش شام و سحر ہےاگر ديکھيں فروغ مہر و مہ سے
But if you see through the waxing sun and moon, | It is just the revolution of morn and night.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — خرد ديکھے اگر دل کي نگہ 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 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