پيام عشق
English title: THE MESSAGE OF LOVE
Listen O seeker of heart's pathos ! I am Naz, you should become Niaz | I am the Ghaznavi of heart's Somnath, you completely become Ayaz
Greatness in the world is not associated with the Alexander’s splendor | Your breast has everything, you should also become the maker of mirrors
The aim of life's struggle is perfection of your Crescent's grandeur | You are the world's oldest Divine Command, be fulfilled like prayer
Be not contented, O gardener, your dignity is established by this alone | If flowers abound in the garden, you should become a more ardent beggar
Gone are those days, these are not the times for wandering in wilderness | Become melted in the world like the congregation's lighted candle
The individual's existence is unreal, the nation's existence is real | Be devoted to the nation, become destroyer of the unreal's magic
Iqbal ! These sectarians of India are working like Azar | Saving your skirt from idols become the dust of the way of Hijaz
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — پيام عشق — 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
- 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 H.T. Sorley; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by H.T. Sorley”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source