قماش و نقرہ و لعل و گہر چیست؟
English title: What are the clothes, gold jewels and gems?
Published English translations cover only part of this poem.
No verified published Urdu translation is available for the Persian verses in this poem yet.
قماش و نقرہ و لعل و گہر چیست؟غلام خوشگل و زرین کمر چیست؟
What are fine linen, rubies and pearls? what are handsome slaves and golden girdle?
چو یزدان از دو گیتی بی نیازنددگر سرمایۂ اہل ہنر چیست؟
what are as free of the two worlds as God Himself? what else is the asset of the people of skill?
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian) — قماش و نقرہ و لعل و گہر چیست؟ — 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 نظام الدین — Published digital poem page (fifvoo5r.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by نظام الدین; Published English translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source