چو بلبل نالۂ زاری نداری
English title: Like nightingale you know not the groans and wails,
No verified published Urdu translation is available for the Persian verses in this poem yet.
چو بلبل نالۂ زاری نداریکہ در تن جان بیداری نداری
Like nightingale you know not the groans and wails, You lack living soul in your set up frail.
درین گلشن کہ گلچینی حلال استتو زخمی از سر خاری نداری
This garden which gives the rose plucking right, You felt no pricks alas! for the thorns fright.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — چو بلبل نالۂ زاری نداری — 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 (2v8push4.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