خدایا وقت ن درویش خوش باد
English title: The days of that ‘Dervesh’ O God keep gay,
No verified published Urdu translation is available for the Persian verses in this poem yet.
خدایا وقت ن درویش خوش بادکہ دلہا از دمش چون غنچہ بگشاد
The days of that ‘Dervesh’ O God keep gay, | Whose breath opes hearts like buds in-early-May.
بہ طفل مکتب ما این دعا گفتپی نانی بہ بند کس میفتاد
To a Maktab’s child he pray’d in this way, | For bread put him not in some body’s pay.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — خدایا وقت ن درویش خوش باد — 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
- 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 Q.A. Kabir; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Q.A. Kabir”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source