صدائے درد
Sada-i-Dard
English title: THE PAINFUL WAIL
Consumed with grief I am, I get relief in no way; O circumambient waters of the Ganges drown me.
Our land foments excessive mutual enmity. What unity! Our closeness harbours separation.
Enmity instead of sincerity is outrageous; enmity among the same barn’s grains is outrageous.
If the brotherly breeze has not entered in a garden; no pleasure can be derived from songs in that garden.
Though I exceedingly love the real closeness; I am upset by the mixing of waves and the shore.
The miraculous poet is like the grain from the barn; the grain has no existence if there is no barn.
How can beauty unveil itself if no one is anxious for sight; lighting of the candle is meaningless if there is no assembly.
Why does the taste for speech not change to silence? Why does this brilliance not appear out from my mirror?
Alas! My tongue poured its speech down When war’s fire had burnt the garden down
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — صدائے درد — 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: Bang-e-Dara — 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
- Iqbal Academy Pakistan Bang-i-Dara Audio Table of Contents — Official audio contents list; cited only for the displayed Urdu and Romanized title pairsPrimary source used to document this poem’s language or title.Source
- Pinned digital source list 001 (Bang-e-Dara section headings) — Pinned repository commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; digital transcription, not a selected print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — The Cry of Pain — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-05; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Dr M.A.K. Khalil; English Translation by: Dr M.A.K. KhalilSource
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at International Iqbal Society — The Painful Wail — Public English translation article, cached 2026-10-05; source HTML and extracted article text are pinned by SHA-256.Translation by Not identified; Article does not identify the translator. Nearby allama text credits Dr M.A.K. Khalil for the poem but these exact missing fields are blank there. Keep the IIS publisher credit rather than infer an individual attribution.Source