گرم ہو جاتا ہے جب محکوم قوموں کا لہو
English title: When the enslaved people’s rage boils
گرم ہو جاتا ہے جب محکوم قوموں کا لہوتھرتھراتا ہے جہان چار سوے و رنگ و بو
When the enslaved people’s rage boils and they rise in revolt against the master, | this world of near and far, of colour and smell, becomes the scene of tremors and convulsions.
پاک ہوتا ہے ظن و تخميں سے انساں کا ضميرکرتا ہے ہر راہ کو روشن چراغ آرزو
It purifies man’s conscience—eschewing all doubts and misgivings— | When the lamp of high ideals is lit, brightening all paths leading to the goal.
وہ پرانے چاک جن کو عقل سي سکتي نہيںعشق سيتا ہے انھيں بے سوزن و تار رفو
There are old maladies and ancients scars the people suffer from, that intellect fails to cure and heal, | but love shows its skill and without the help of physician’s talents removes all scars and cures all woes.
ضربت پيہم سے ہو جاتا ہے آخر پاش پاشحاکميت کا بت سنگيں دل و آئينہ رو
The master’s sturdy body—with a heart of stone and face of a mirror— | gets soon smashed up and beaten down at the repeated blows of the weak slave.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — گرم ہو جاتا ہے جب محکوم قوموں کا لہو — 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 K. Nizam‐ud‐Din; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by K. Nizam‐ud‐Din”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source