رخصت اے بزم جہاں
English title: FAREWELL O WORLD'S ONGREGATION!
(Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson) Farewell O worldly companions! I am going to my homeland. I am feeling unhappy in this well populated wilderness.
I am very much dejected, unsuitable for assemblies I am; neither you are suitable for me nor suitable for you I am.
The king's audience and the minister's bed-chamber each is a prison; the golden chain's prisoner will break himself free from this prison.
Though much pleasure is in embellishing your assembly, but some kind of strangeness is in your acquaintance.
I remained long in company of your self centered people; I remain restless for long like the waves of the ocean.
I remained long in your luxury gatherings; I remained long searching for light in the darkness.
I searched long for the rose' sight among thorns; Ah! I have not found that Yusuf in your market place.
The perplexed eye for another scene is searching; as storm-stricken my eye for coast is searching.
Leaving your garden like fragrance I am going. Farewell! O worldly company I am going to the homeland.
I have made my home in the quietness of the mountain side. Ah! I do not get this pleasure in conversation's music!
Associate of Nargis-i-Shahlah, and rose's companion I am; the garden is my homeland, nightingale's associate I am.
The sound of the spring's music lulls me to sleep. The morning cuckoo from the green carpet wakes me up.
Everyone in the world assemblage social life likes the poet's heart but the solitude's corner likes.
I am verged on lunacy by being perturbed in habitations, for whom I am searching, roaming in the mountain valleys?\
Whose love makes me roam in the meadows? And makes me sleep on the spring's banks?
You taunt me that fond of the corner of retirement I am. Look O imprudent one! Messenger of Nature's assembly I am.
Compatriot of the elms, turtle dove's confidante I am! In this garden's silence in the state of anxiety I am!
If I do hear something it is only to tell others. If I do see something it is only to show others.
My heart is a lover of retirement, proud of my home I am. Scoffing at the thrones of Dara and Sikandar I am.
How enchanting is the act of lying under the trees | As now and then my sight falls at the evening star
Where in the strange house of learning can this be seen! | The secret of universe can only in the rose‑petal be seen
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — رخصت اے بزم جہاں — 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
- 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 — Farewell O World's Congregation! — 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
- 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 D.J. Matthews; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by D.J. Matthews”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source
