سر اکبر حيدري، صدر اعظم حيدر آباد دکن کے نام
English title: TO SIR AKBAR HYDERI - THE CHIEF MINISTER OF HYDERABAD DECCAN
Published English translations cover only part of this poem.
تھا يہ اللہ کا فرماں کہ شکوہ پرويزدو قلندر کو کہ ہيں اس ميں ملوکانہ صفات
مجھ سے فرمايا کہ لے، اور شہنشاہي کرحسن تدبير سے دے آني و فاني کو ثبات
I was told: Take it and be an emperor; | Confer permanence on the ephemeral with your talent.
ميں تو اس بار امانت کو اٹھاتا سر دوشکام درويش ميں ہر تلخ ہے مانند نبات
I would have much honoured this trust— | All bitterness tastes sweet to the mouth of a dervish.
غيرت فقر مگر کر نہ سکي اس کو قبول!جب کہا اس نے يہ ہے ميري خدائي کي زکات
However, the self‐respect of faqr could not accept it | When He said: this is the charity of my Godhead.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — سر اکبر حيدري، صدر اعظم حيدر آباد دکن کے نام — 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 Maqbool Elahi; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Maqbool Elahi”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.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 the Editors; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by the Editors”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source