جاويد کے نام
English title: TO JAVID
ديار عشق ميں اپنا مقام پيدا کرنيا زمانہ ، نئے صبح و شام پيدا کر
Create a place for thyself in the world of love; create a new age, new days, and new nights.
خدا اگر دل فطرت شناس دے تجھ کوسکوت لالہ و گل سے کلام پيدا کر
If God grant thee an eye for nature’s beauty, converse with the silence of flowers; respond to their love.
اٹھا نہ شيشہ گران فرنگ کے احساںسفال ہند سے مينا و جام پيدا کر
Do not be beholden to the West’s artisans; seek thy sustenance in what thy land affords.
ميں شاخ تاک ہوں ، ميري غزل ہے ميرا ثمرمرے ثمر سے مےء لالہ فام پيدا کر
My ghazal is the essence of my life-blood; create thy elixir of life out ‘of this essence.
مرا طريق اميري نہيں ، فقيري ہے!خودي نہ بيچ ، غريبي ميں نام پيدا کر
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — جاويد کے نام — 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 — To Javed — 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