اذان
English title: AZAN
اک رات ستاروں سے کہا نجم سحر نےآدم کو بھي ديکھا ہے کسي نے کبھي بيدار؟
One night in a vision, I saw a morning star, asking the stars if they saw man ever awake.
کہنے لگا مريخ ، ادا فہم ہے تقديرہے نيند ہي اس چھوٹے سے فتنے کو سزاوار
Mercury said, ‘Destiny has wisely decreed, that this impish trouble maker should always be asleep.’
زہرہ نے کہا ، اور کوئي بات نہيں کيا؟!اس کرمک شب کور سے کيا ہم کو سروکار
Venus replied ill disdain ‘Let us mind our business; thus night-blind insect is beneath our contempt.’
بولا مہ کامل کہ وہ کوکب ہے زمينيتم شب کو نمودار ہو ، وہ دن کو نمودار
The full moon said, ‘He is a star of the earth; you appear by night, and he appears by day;
واقف ہو اگر لذت بيداري شب سےاونچي ہے ثريا سے بھي يہ خاک پر اسرار
This handful of dust, when keeping awake at night, is loftier than the galaxies in heaven;
آغوش ميں اس کي وہ تجلي ہے کہ جس ميںکھو جائيں گے افلاک کے سب ثابت و سيار
He has a beatific light concealed in his soul: A light that will eclipse the brightest stars and planets.’
ناگاہ فضا بانگ اذاں سے ہوئي لبريز!وہ نعرہ کہ ہل جاتا ہے جس سے دل کہسار
Then came the echoing thunder of the sound of azan; the thunder which gives shivers to mountains’ hearts.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — اذان — 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 — Call to Prayer — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Naim Siddiqui; English Translation by: Naim SiddiquiSource