نہ آتے ، ہميں اس ميں تکرار کيا تھي
English title: IF YOU HAD NOT COME I WOULD HAVE HAD NO OCCASION FOR CONTENTION
نہ آتے ، ہميں اس ميں تکرار کيا تھيمگر وعدہ کرتے ہوئے عار کيا تھي
If you had not come I would have had no occasion for contention. But what reluctance in making the promise was?
تمھارے پيامي نے سب راز کھولاخطا اس ميں بندے کي سرکار کيا تھي
Your messenger disclosed every secret O Lord! What fault of Man in this was?
بھري بزم ميں اپنے عاشق کو تاڑا!تري آنکھ مستي ميں ہشيار کيا تھي
You recognized Your Lover in the full assembly. How alert Your eye in the middle of the ecstasy was!
تامل تو تھا ان کو آنے ميں قاصدمگر يہ بتا طرز انکار کيا تھي
True! Reluctant he was to come, O messenger, but tell me what the manner of denial was.
کھنچے خود بخود جانب طور موسي!کشش تيري اے شوق ديدار کيا تھي
Musa (A.S.) was effortlessly attracted to Toor. How strong, O Zeal your attraction was!
کہيں ذکر رہتا ہے اقبال تيرافسوں تھا کوئي ، تيري گفتار کيا تھي
Your fame continues somewhere, O Iqbal! Some magic, not your speech it was.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — نہ آتے ، ہميں اس ميں تکرار کيا تھي — 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
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — — 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