روح ارضي آدم کا استقبال کرتي ہے
English title: ADAM IS RECEIVED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH
Open thy eyes and look above, look at the streak of dawn; Look at the veiling of the vision; look at the banishment unfair; look at the battle of hope and fear.
Thine are the clouds, the rains, the skies, thine are the winds, the storms, the woods, the mountains, the rivers are thine; the world of the angels was a void; look at the peopled earth, which is thine.
Thou wilt rule it like a king; the stars will gaze in wonder; thy vision will encompass the earth; thy sighs will reach the heavens; look at the power of thy pain and passion.
The spark in thee is a radiant sun; a new world lives in thee; thou carest not for a borrowed heaven; thy life-blood has it concealed; look at the reward of anguish and toil.
ہے راکب تقدیر جہاں تیری رضا، دیکھ!
Thy lyre has an eternal plaintive string, panting with the passion of love; thou guardest eternal secrets divine and livest a life of obedient power; look at the world as shaped by thy will.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — روح ارضي آدم کا استقبال کرتي 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
- Original digital source for restored final line in روح ارضي آدم کا استقبال کرتي ہے — Pinned repository content, commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 2393.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Adam Is Received By The Spirit Of The Earth — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Not identified by publisher; This page does not name a translator.Source
- 002_140: published English translation, source group 2393 — Pinned digital poem content, repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 2393.Translation by (Based on a translation by S A Vahid, edited by Hafeez Malik); (Based on a translation by S A Vahid, edited by Hafeez Malik)Source
- Source group 2393, final standalone line after 002_140_012.Edition evidence