جدائي
English title: SEPARATION
سورج بنتا ہے تار زر سےدنيا کے ليے ردائے نوري
The sun is weaving with golden thread a mantle of light about earth's head;
عالم ہے خموش و مست گوياہر شے کو نصيب ہے حضوري
Creation hushed in ecstasy, | As in the presence of the Most High.
دريا ، کہسار ، چاند تارےکيا جانيں فراق و ناصبوري
What can these know—stream, hill, moon, star— | Of separation’s torturing scar?
شاياں ہے مجھے غم جدائييہ خاک ہے محرم جدائي
Mine is this golden grief alone, | To this dust only is this grief known.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — جدائي — 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 — Separation — 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
- 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