مثال پرتو مے ، طوف جام کرتے ہيں
English title: WE CIRCUMAMBULATE THE WINE‑CUP LIKE THE WINE'S REFLECTION
We circumambulate the wine cup like the wine's reflection; we are offering this prayer from morning till evening.
You are not singular in this O Kalim; trees and stones are also talking with God.
O Candle! Search for a new world, because here* we are enduring tyrannies of the incomplete Love.
O Companions! Silence in this garden is good, as the melodious ones are kept in cages here.
Those whose purpose is pleasure from wine; are changing the lawful into the unlawful.
How can you and we reconcile, O preacher, as we are making the custom of Love universal!
O God! What magic is concealed in the saints, clad in rags! That they subdue the youth with a single glance.
I shudder at the pleasures of their assemblies; who are getting fame by destroying their homes.
May the meadows of the motherland* be ever flourishing; we are saluting you from the ship sailing away.
When those un-accustomed to prayers assemble for one, Iqbal; calling me back from temple they make me their Imam.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — مثال پرتو مے ، طوف جام کرتے ہيں — 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