شيخ مکتب سے
English title: TO THE HEADMASTER
شيخ مکتب ہے اک عمارت گرجس کي صنعت ہے روح انساني
نکتہء دلپذير تيرے ليےکہہ گيا ہے حکيم قاآني
پيش خورشيد بر مکش ديوار ''''خواہي ار صحن خانہ نوراني
The headmaster is an architect whose material is the human soul. A good advice has been left for you by the sage Qa‘ani: ‘Do not raise a wall against the Sun if you wish the courtyard illuminated.’
'اگر تو اپنے گھر کا صحن روشن رکھنا چاہتا ہے تو ایسی دیوار نہ بنا جو سورج کی روشنی کو روک دے'۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — شيخ مکتب 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — To School Headmaster — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by V G Kiernan; (Translate by V G Kiernan)Source
- 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/04/50.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source