کيا کہوں اپنے چمن سے ميں جدا کيونکر ہوا
English title: WHAT CAN I SAY HOW I GOT SEPARATED FROM MY GARDEN
What can I say how I got separated from my garden and how I got imprisoned in the net of greed.*
It is strange that the whole world being against me; how the recipient of honour of respectability I have been.*
Some demand of showing and seeing was on the Toor: What do you know O heart! How it was decided?*
The desire to be without any desire is also a desire. How the heart's bird freed from the net of greed was?
Those desirous of seeing You, see You here also; then how the Last Day's promise a test of patience was?*
The Perfect Beauty itself may be the cause of this unveiling; how became self-apparent what concealed in curtains was?
Death as a recipe still remains, O separation's pathos! The physician is insane, how I deemed incurable was?*
O admonishing eye! Have you ever seen how the rose having been born out of dust became colorful?*
The purpose of interrogation for deeds was to disgrace me; otherwise all as to how and why it happened obvious was? *
My destruction was something worth witnessing: What can I say how l facing Him was? *
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — کيا کہوں اپنے چمن سے ميں جدا کيونکر ہوا — 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
