ضمير مغرب ہے تاجرانہ، ضمير مشرق ہے راہبانہ
English title: The ways of the West are calculating
The ways of the West are calculating, the ways of the East are monkish; | there the times change from moment to moment, here the times see no change whatsoever.
Khidr, on the bank of the river, spoke to me thus in confidence: | all are the ways of sorcery, be the actor a king of dervish.
These people of the monasteries look upon me as their rival; | they fear lest my beautiful songs rent asunder the saint’s threshold stone.
This is the manifest symbol of the knowledge of the slave people: | What if the earth has limits! the whole expanse of Space is boundless.
I can’t see what it is: is it self‐deception of deception of God? | Having invented the excuse of fate, the Muslim has ceased to act meaningfully.
The rose twig made the hunter weep on seeing me caught in the net: | a charming sweet singer was he, his nest rested harmlessly on my branches.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — ضمير مغرب ہے تاجرانہ، ضمير مشرق ہے راہبانہ — 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