تاتاري کا خواب
English title: THE TARTAR'S DREAM
Prayer-mat and priestly turban have turned footpad, | With wanton boys' bold glances men are flattered;
The Church's mantle and the creed in shreds, | The robe of State and nation torn and tattered.
I cling to faith-but may its spark not soon | Lie quenched under these rubbish-heaps thick-scattered!
Bokhara's humble dust and Samarkand's | The turbulent billows of many winds have battered.
A gem set in a ring of misery | That circles me on every side, am I.
Suddenly quivered the dust of Samarkand, | And from an ancient tomb a light shone, pure
As the first gleam of daybreak, and a voice | Was heard:-'I am the spirit of Timur!
Chains may hold fast the men of Tartary, | But God's firm purposes no bonds endure
Is this what life holds-that Turania's peoples | All hope in one another must abjure ?
Call in the soul of man a new fire to birth! Of cry a new revolution over the earth!
اپنی خودی میں تازہ حرارت اور نئی تب و تاب پیدا کرو؛ ایسا کرو گے تو اس دنیا میں انقلاب برپا کر سکو گے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — تاتاري کا خواب — 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 — The Tartar's Dream — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by V G Kiernan; English Translation by: V G KiernanSource
- Bal-e-Jibril: published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/bal-e-jibreel/04/37.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.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