مجھے آہ و فغان نيم شب کا پھر پيام آيا
English title: Once more I feel the urge to wail
مجھے آہ و فغان نيم شب کا پھر پيام آياتھم اے رہرو کہ شايد پھر کوئي مشکل مقام آيا
Once more I feel the urge to wail and weep at dead of night: O traveller, stop a bit, perchance I face some awful site.
ذرا تقدير کي گہرائيوں ميں ڈوب جا تو بھيکہ اس جنگاہ سے ميں بن کے تيغ بے نيام آيا
Awhile in dark abyss of Fate dive and see beneath: Out of this battlefield I come like sword out of the sheath.
يہ مصرع لکھ ديا کس شوخ نے محراب مسجد پريہ ناداں گر گئے سجدوں ميں جب وقت قيام آيا
This verse some man with witty mind on niche of mosque did write: ‘These fools fell prostrate on the earth, when it was time to fight’.
چل ، اے ميري غريبي کا تماشا ديکھنے والےوہ محفل اٹھ گئي جس دم تو مجھ تک دور جام آيا
O man, who at my misery scoff, follow the road you tread: When the cup to me was passed, the gathering all had fled.
ديا اقبال نے ہندي مسلمانوں کو سوز اپنايہ اک مرد تن آساں تھا ، تن آسانوں کے کام آيا
Iqbal his glow to Muslims lent, who in India dwell: An easy-going man he was and served the sluggards well.
اسي اقبال کي ميں جستجو کرتا رہا برسوںبڑي مدت کے بعد آخر وہ شاہيں زير دام آيا
To find Iqbal for years on end I did chafe and fret: By effort great that kingly hawk has come within my net.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — مجھے آہ و فغان نيم شب کا پھر پيام آيا — 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: Bal-e-Jibril — 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
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Syed Akbar Ali Shah; English Translation by: Syed Akbar Ali ShahSource