نہنگی بچہ خود را چہ خوش گفت
English title: Thus said to its child a ‘croco’: with boast,
No verified published Urdu translation is available for the Persian verses in this poem yet.
نهنگی بچه خود را چه خوش گفتبه دین ما حرام آمد کرانه
Thus said to its child a ‘croco’: with boast, | It is banned in our faith to see the coast.
به موج آویز و از ساحل بپرهیزهمه دریاست ما را آشیانه
So mix up with waves and shun the coast, | To us the river bed plays a host.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — نہنگی بچہ خود را چہ خوش گفت — 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
- Zinderood: Armaghan-e-Hijaz, Huzur-e-Millat, section 17 — Nahang with its child — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-05; underlying printed edition is not identified by the page.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked 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
- Zinderood poem 008d5a1u, couplet 1, verses 1–2; first two couplets belong to source poem 011_276. The digital page supplies the missing opening line and places “به دین ما حرام آمد کرانه” as its second line. — Digital-source correction to the pinned transcription; the source page and its cached HTML are preserved and hashed in the source record.Edition evidence
- Zinderood poem 008d5a1u, couplet 2, verses 1–2; first two couplets belong to source poem 011_276. The line “بہ سیمای سحر داغ سجود است” is absent from this poem page and was removed from this source anchor. — Digital-source correction to the pinned transcription; the source page and its cached HTML are preserved and hashed in the source record.Edition evidence