چو می بینی کہ رہزن کاروان کشت
English title: A caravan was killed, if you e’er see,
No verified published Urdu translation is available for the Persian verses in this poem yet.
چو می بینی کہ رہزن کاروان کشتچہ پرسی کاروانی را چسان کشت
A caravan was killed, if you e’er see, | Make not a probe, how it could be.
مباش ایمن از ن علمی کہ خوانیکہ از وی روح قومی میتوان کشت
No use to learn a knowledge and skill, | Which murders a nation’s soul and will.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — چو می بینی کہ رہزن کاروان کشت — 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