گہی افتم گہی مستانہ خیزم
English title: Like gallants I fall and rise again,
گہی افتم گہی مستانہ خیزمچو خون بی تیغ و شمشیری بریزم
Like gallants I fall and rise again, What a blood I shed sans sword-and cane.
کبھی میں گرتا ہوں کبھی مست حال اٹھتا ہوں ۔ کیا خون ہے جو میں تلوار اور تیغ کے بغیر بہا رہا ہوں ۔
نگاہ التفاتی بر سر بامکہ من با عصر خویش اندر ستیزم
On every ones terrace now leans thy look, For which a constant war I have to brook.
چھت کے کنارے سے مہربانی کی نگاہ کر کیونکہ میں اپنے زمانے سے لڑ رہا ہوں ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — گہی افتم گہی مستانہ خیزم — 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 (Persian) — 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
- armaghan-e-hijaz: published English translation by کبیر — Published digital poem page (byahkmdb.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by کبیر; Published English translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source
- armaghan-e-hijaz: published Urdu translation by حمیداللہ ہاشمی — Published digital poem page (byahkmdb.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by حمیداللہ ہاشمی; Published Urdu translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source