و صال
English title: MEETING THE BELOVED; THE UNION
Published English translations cover only part of this poem.
O Nightingale! The rose whose search made me flounced; by dint of good luck that rose I have finally found.
I used to flounce myself; I used to make others flounced. I used to feel shy when I found you singing beautifully.
A mere restless heart was not in my bosom, it was mercury. I was impatient for fulfillment of the Longing of Love.
My misfortune was famous in the assembly of the rose; my morning was the reflection of my dark night.
With my breath I have a blood stained knife in the bosom; under the cloak of silence I have Judgment Day's uproar.
میرے خون شدہ سینے میں سانس ، نشتر کی طرح چل رہا تھا ۔ میری خاموشی کے نیچے قیامت کا شور برپا تھا ۔
Now that distress does not exist in my reflections' world; my reciting ghazals is no longer irksome to rose garden's assembly.
With the heat of Love my blisters became flames; now playing with thunderbolts are my wailings.
By becoming a prisoner I gained my freedom; by ruining the heart I got prosperity for my house.
My star is shining with this sun's light, by whose path's dust the moon light is shy.
By a glance you taught me the rules of annihilation; how cool the day that has burnt away the motes from me.
اس شعر میں اقبال اپنے محبوب سے کہتے ہیں ، تو نے مجھ پر ایک نظر ڈال کر عشق میں فنا ہونے کا طریقہ سکھا دیا وہ لمحات خوب تھے ۔ جب تیرے عشق نے میرے جسم کے خاشاک کو جلا کر خاک کر دیا تھا ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — و صال — 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 Bang-e-Dara original fields for the four Persian lines in Wisal (001_073)Source
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — The Union (Meeting The Beloved) — 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
- Bang-e-Dara Wisal: published Urdu explanations at Iqbal Rahber — Published Iqbal Rahber Bang-e-Dara Wisal page; HTML snapshot retrieved 2026-10-06.Translation by Not separately identified; Published Urdu explanatory prose (مطلب) on Iqbal Rahber; no translator is separately identified.Source
