درد عشق
Dard-i-`Ishq
English title: PATHOS OF LOVE
O Pathos of Love! You are a glossy pearl | Beware, you should not appear among strangers
The theatre of your display is concealed under the veil | The modern audience' eye accepts only the visible display
New breeze has arrived in the Existence' garden | O Pathos of Love! Now there is no pleasure in display
Beware! You should not be striving for ostentation! | You should not be obligated to the nightingale's lament!
The tulip's wine-cup should be devoid of wine | The dew's tear should be a mere drop of water
Your secret should be hidden in the bosom somewhere | Your heart -melting tear should not be your betrayer
The flowery-styled poet's tongue should not be talking | Separation's complaint should not be concealed in flute's music
This age is a critic, go and somewhere conceal yourself | In the heart in which you are residing conceal yourself
The learning's surprise is neglecting you, beware! | Your immature eye is not the seeker of Truth, beware
Let the elegant thought remain in search of Truth | Let your wisdom-loving eye remain in astonishment
This is not the garden whose spring you may be | This is not the audience worthy of your appearance
This audience is the lover of the material sights | The purpose of your sight is the closet of secrecy
Every heart is intoxicated with the wine of thinking; something different is the Toor of the Kalims of this age.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — درد عشق — 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 — Pathos Of Love — 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
- English translations in the Bang-e-Dara digital anthology excerpt — Recovered Urdu poetry anthology PDF excerpt; publication title and year are not established by the preserved source packet (bang-english.pdf, 105 PDF pages).Translation by M.A.K. Khalil; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by M.A.K. Khalil”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source