دل
Dil
English title: THE HEART
Tales of gallows and crucifixion are mere child's play for the Heart. The request of Arini* is only the title of the story of the Heart.
O Lord! How powerful the full cup of that wine would be? The Way to eternity is each single line on the measuring cup of the Heart.
O Lord! Was it the cloud of mercy or the thunderbolt of Love, when the life's crop got burned down, sprouted the seed of the Heart.
You would have got the Beauty's bountiful treasure, O Farhad*! You never dug into the ruins of the Heart.
Now it looks like the ‘Arsh ’, now like the Ka'bah. O God! Whose lodging is the abode of my Heart.
It has its own junoon* and I have my own sawda;* the Heart loves someone else and I love the Heart.
You do not comprehend this, O simple hearted ascetic! Envy of a thousand prostrations is one slip of the Heart.
It changes the heap of earth into elixir; such is the power of the ashes of the Heart.
It gains freedom after being caught in the net of Love; on being thunder-struck greens up the tree of the Heart
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — دل — 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 — Heart — 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