پنچاب کے دہقان سے
English title: TO THE PUNJAB PEASANT
بتا کيا تري زندگي کا ہے رازہزاروں برس سے ہے تو خاک باز
What is this life of yours, tell me its mystery: Trampled in dust is your ages-old history!
اسي خاک ميں دب گئي تيري آگ!سحر کي اذاں ہوگئي ، اب تو جاگ
Deep in that dust has been smothered your flame— | Wake, and hear dawn its high summons proclaim
زميں ميں ہے گو خاکيوں کي براتنہيں اس اندھيرے ميں آب حيات
Creatures of dust from the soil may draw bread: | Not in that darkness is Life's river fed!
زمانے ميں جھوٹا ہے اس کا نگيںجو اپني خودي کو پرکھتا نہيں
Base will his metal be held, who on earth | Puts not to trial his innermost worth!
بتان شعوب و قبائل کو توڑرسوم کہن کے سلاسل کو توڑ
Break all the idols of tribe and of caste, | Break the old customs that fetter men fast
يہي دين محکم ، يہي فتح بابکہ دنيا ميں توحيد ہو بے حجاب
Here is true victory, here is faith's crown— | One creed and one world, division thrown down
بخاک بدن دانہء دل فشاںکہ ايں دانہ داردز حاصل نشاں
Cast on the soil of your clay the heart's seed | Promise of harvest to come, is that seed
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — پنچاب کے دہقان سے — 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 The Punjab Peasant — 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
- 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