نيا شوالا
English title: THE NEW TEMPLE
May I tell the truth O Brahman! If it does not displease you! The idols of your temple have become anachronistic.
You have learnt grudge with your own people from the idols; God also has taught fighting to Muslim preachers.
Becoming tired, I finally abandoned the temple and the Haram; I abandoned the preacher's sermons, as well as your stories.
You take the stone idols to contain God; every speck of the homeland's dust is holy to me.
Come! Let us again roll up the curtains of strangeness. Let us unite the separated ones, let us remove the disunion.
The heart's habitation is lying barren since long. Let us build a new temple in this country.
Let our shrine be higher than the world's shrines. Let us make its spire as high as the sky.
Let our morning's incantations be so sweet every morning that all worshipers be ecstatic with the Love's wine.
The power and tranquillity is in the devotees' song. The salvation of the denizens of the earth is in Love
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — نيا شوالا — 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 — The New Temple — 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
