وہ ميرا رونق محفل کہاں ہے
English title: Where is the moving spirit of my life?
وہ ميرا رونق محفل کہاں ہےمري بجلي ، مرا حاصل کہاں ہے
مقام اس کا ہے دل کي خلوتوں ميں!خدا جانے مقام دل کہاں ہے
Where is the moving spirit of my life? The thunder-bolt, the harvest of my life? His place is in the solitude of the heart, but I know not the place of the heart within.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — وہ ميرا رونق محفل کہاں ہے — 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 Naim Siddiqui; English Translation by: Naim SiddiquiSource