کھلا جب چمن ميں کتب خانہء گل
English title: When flowers’ bookshop opened in the garden
When flowers’ bookshop opened in the garden | Mullah’s bookish knowledge lost all value.
The spring breeze was exhilarating, poise‐breaking, | the old man of Indrab burst into ghazal‐singing.
The tulip, of fiery skirt, said: | it doth reveal the secrets of the soul.
Who calls sleep awhile in the grave as eternal death, | sows seeds of destruction in the earth.
Life is not a succession of days and nights, | nor is it intoxication and dreamy sleep;
life is to burn in one’s fire: | happy is the man who grasps this truth.
زندگی اپنی آگ میں تڑپنے کا نام ہے ، مبارک ہو تیرے ل یے وہ لمحہ جب تو اس باریک بات کو پھر سے سمجھ لے؛ مراد ہے اپنے اندر عشق کا جذبہ پیدا کر۔
If thou snatch’st a spark from heart’s fire, | thou canst be a sun under the sky.
اگر تو دل کی آگ سے ایک چنگاری حاصل کر لے یعنی اپنے اندر ایسا دل پیدا کر لے جس میں عشق کی آگ ہو اور اس آگ سے غیر اللہ کے خس و خاشاک کو جلا کر اپنے دل میں اللہ کو بسا لے تو میں یقین دلاتا ہوں کہ تو آسمان کے نیچے یعنی دنیا میں آفتاب طلوع کر سکتا ہے – خود بھی روشن ہو سکتا ہے اور اہل جہان کو بھی روشنی دے سکتا ہے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — کھلا جب چمن ميں کتب خانہء گل — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu portion): published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/armaghan-e-hijaz/03/09.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.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
