چاند
English title: THE MOON
O moon! Your beauty is the dignity of creation | Circumambulating the earthly sanctuary is your old habit
This something like a spot which appears on your breast | Are you someone’s Lover? Is this the Longing’s scar?
I am restless on the earth, you are impatient in the sky | You are also in search, I am also in search
Man is the candle of the congregation which is also yours | The direction in which I am going is also your destination
The one you are searching for in the stars’ silence | Perhaps is concealed in the commotion of life
It is standing is the cypress tree, is sleeping in the verdure | Is singing in the nightingale, is silent in the flower bud
Come, I shall show you His luminous cheek | In rivers’ mirror, in dew’s looking glass
In forest, in mountains in everything only He exists | In the heart of Man, in your cheek only He exists
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — چاند — 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