يورپ سے ايک خط
English title: A LETTER FROM EUROPE
We venture not beyond the shores: Being to the senses confined. But Rumi is an ocean, stormy, mysterious. Iqbal! Thou, too, art moving in that band of men: That band of men of passion, of which Rumi is the guide; Rumi, they say, is the guiding light for freedom; has he, indeed, a message for the age we live in?
جواب
Reply: ‘Eat not hay and corn like donkeys; eat of thy choice like the musk-deer: He dies who eats hay and corn. He who eats God’s light, becomes the Quran.’
مولانا اس شعر میں فرماتے ہیں کہ گھاس اور جو کھانے والا بھیڑ بکری اور گائے بیل کی طرح ذبح کر دیا جاتا ہے تاکہ دوسروں کی تن پروری کا سبب بن سکے ۔ اس کے برعکس جو شخص نور خداوندی پر اکتفا کرتا ہے اس کا سینہ روحانیت سے منور ہو جاتا ہے وہ قرآن کی مانند دوسروں کے لیے رہنمائی کا سبب بن جاتا ہے ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — يورپ سے ايک خط — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — A Letter From Europe — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Naim Siddiqui; English Translation by: Naim SiddiquiSource
- Bal-e-Jibril: published Urdu rendering at Iqbal Rahber — Public published source page; pinned snapshot rahber-mixed-europe-letter-poem.txt.Translation by Not separately identified; Published Urdu rendering from Iqbal Rahber; no translator is separately identified.Source
