سمجھا لہو کي بوند اگر تو اسے تو خير
English title: Thou think’st it a mere drop of blood
سمجھا لہو کي بوند اگر تو اسے تو خيردل آدمي کا ہے فقط اک جذبہء بلند
Thou think’st it a mere drop of blood; well, | manʹs heart is but lofty ambitions.
گردش مہ و ستارہ کي ہے ناگوار اسےدل آپ اپنے شام و سحر کا ہے نقش بند
The revolutions of moon and stars are not to its liking: | It makes its own nights and days.
جس خاک کے ضمير ميں ہے آتش چنارممکن نہيں کہ سرد ہو وہ خاک ارجمند
The earth that enshrines in its bosom the fire of plane tree: | this exalted earth can never be dead and cold.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — سمجھا لہو کي بوند اگر تو اسے تو خير — 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