عبد القادر کے نام
English title: ADDRESSED TO ABD AL-QADIR
Rise, as darkness has appeared on the eastern horizon | We should light up the assemblage with blazing songs
Our capacity is only a cry of lament like the wild rue | We should overturn the assemblage with this same uproar
We should show the assemblage the effect of Love’s polish | We should convert the stone of today into the mirror of tomorrow
By showing them the effulgence of the lost Yusuf; we should make them more agitation-prone than Zalaykha’s blood.
By giving the lesson of the law of growth to this garden | We should turn the insignificant drop of dew into the ocean
We should lift our dearest chattel from the China' s temple | We should fascinate all with the face of Sa'di and Sulaima
Look! The Lailah's she camel became useless in Yathrib; we should make Qais acquainted with the new Longing.
The wine should be mature and so hot that with it | We should soften the heart of the glass, the goblet, and the decanter
The grief which kept us warm in the cold of the West | Opening up the breast we should make it public
In the world's congregation we should live like the candle | We should burn ourselves and open up the rivals' eyes
"The candle reveals whatever passes through the heart | Burning is not the thought which the candle conceals"
شمع کے دل میں جو بات آتی ہے وہ اسے صاف صاف کہہ ڈالتی ہے۔ گویا جلنا کوئی ایسا خیال نہیں ہے جسے شمع دل میں چھپائے رکھ سکے
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — عبد القادر کے نام — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — To Abdul Qadir — 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
- شرح بانگ درا (لغت و تشریح) — Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 2006; ISBN 969-35-1868-3; published commentary and translation.Translation by Dr. Khwaja Hameed Yazdani; Title page PDF3 and publication/ISBN page PDF4, visually read. The source note is credited to Dr. Khwaja Hameed Yazdani.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
