مجنوں نے شہر چھوڑا تو صحرا بھي چھوڑ دے
English title: MAJNUN ABANDONED HABITATION, YOU SHOULD ABANDON WILDERNESS ALSO
Majnun abandoned habitation, you should abandon wilderness also; if there be ambition for Sight, you should abandon Lailah also.
O preacher! Perfection of abandonment attains the objective, as you have abandoned the world, abandon the Hereafter also.
Suicide is better than the way of taqlid; seek your own path, abandon the love of Khizar also.
Like the pen the un-Islamic message is on your tongue; abandon unjustified pride in the un-Islamic objects also.
Theology is no pleasure if heart does not have Love’s pathos; if you are not the Wounded, you should abandon fluttering also.
Weep like the dew on flowers and leave the garden; abandon the desire of staying in this garden also.
The custom of Love is abandonment of all; abandon temple, mosque, and church also.
This is not business, this is ibadat of God! O ignorant one, abandon the longing for reward also.
It is good to guard Intuition with Intellect, but sometimes you should let it go alone also.
What life is that which is dependent on others ? | Abandon dependence on the life of fame also
Repeated request is a kind of boldness! O Kalim the condition for approbation is to abandon urging also.
As the preacher brought proof in support of wine | Iqbal insists that he should abandon drinking also
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — مجنوں نے شہر چھوڑا تو صحرا بھي چھوڑ دے — 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
- 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 Umrao Singh Sher Gil; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Umrao Singh Sher Gil”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source
