دراج کي پرواز ميں ہے شوکت شاہيں
English title: The partridge flies with the majesty of the falcons
دراج کي پرواز ميں ہے شوکت شاہيں!حيرت ميں ہے صياد، يہ شاہيں ہے کہ دراج
The partridge flies with the majesty of the falcons; | the hunter is nonplussed: is it a partridge or a falcon?
ہر قوم کے افکار ميں پيدا ہے تلاطممشرق ميں ہے فردائے قيامت کي نمود آج
Every nation is astir, her thoughts in a constant flux; | today we see in the East the signs of tomorrow’s resurrection.
فطرت کے تقاضوں سے ہوا حشر پہ مجبوروہ مردہ کہ تھا بانگ سرافيل کا محتاج
The deadbody, awaiting Israfil’s Call, has all of a sudden risen to life: | Nature’s pitiless laws work wonders.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — دراج کي پرواز ميں ہے شوکت شاہيں — 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