الارض للہ
English title: THE EARTH IS GOD'S
پالتا ہے بيج کو مٹي کو تاريکي ميں کونکون درياؤں کي موجوں سے اٹھاتا ہے سحاب؟
Who rears the seed in the darkness of the ground? Who lifts the cloud up from the ocean wave?
کون لايا کھينچ کر پچھم سے باد سازگارخاک يہ کس کي ہے ، کس کا ہے يہ نور آفتاب؟
Who drew here from the west the fruitful wind? | Who made this soil, or who that light of the sun?
کس نے بھردي موتيوں سے خوشہء گندم کي جيبموسموں کو کس نے سکھلائي ہے خوئے انقلاب؟
Who filled with pearls of grain the tasselled wheat? | Who taught the months by instinct to revolve?
دہ خدايا! يہ زميں تيري نہيں ، تيري نہيںتيرے آبا کي نہيں ، تيري نہيں ، ميري نہيں
Landlord! this earth is not thine, is not thine, | Nor yet thy fathers' ; no, not thine, nor mine.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — الارض للہ — 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 — The Earth Is God's — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Naim Siddiqui; English Translation by: Naim SiddiquiSource
- Poems from Iqbal — First edition, 1955Translation by V. G. Kiernan; Published English translations attributed to V. G. Kiernan; the 231 previously imported exact passages remain, with one additional independently reviewed final standalone line at PDF page 100. Each new locator names its exact passage scope.Source