نمود صبح
English title: MORNING’S APPEARANCE
From under the horizon’s skirt is appearing; the day and night’s virgin daughter that is dawn.
The sky has completed benedictions for the star’s crop. The sun has decorated the eastern horizon with mirrors.
The sky, getting news of the arrival of the sun has packed up night’s litter on dust-cloud’s shoulders.
The sun’s flame seems to be the produce of this field which was sown by sky’s farmer as sparks of stars.
The morning star is on the way from the sky retrieving as the last nightly worshiper from the mosque be retrieving.
What a beautiful sight it is as somebody slowly draws the bright sword from the sheath’s darkness.
The dawn’s meaning in the eastern horizon is hidden aas inside the goblet the pleasant wine is hidden.
The dawn is under the skirt of the friendly breeze; the noise of the conchis mixed with the call of adhan.
All the singing birds woke up by the cuckoo’s call; every string of dawn’s system has become musical.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — نمود صبح — 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 — Morning’s Appearance — 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
