موٹر
English title: THE MOTOR CAR
کيسي پتے کي بات جگندر نے کل کہيموٹر ہے ذوالفقار علي خان کا کيا خموش
How rightly Jogender said this yesterday: ‘The car of Zulfiqar Ali Khan is so quiet.
ہنگامہ آفريں نہيں اس کا خرام نازمانند برق تيز ، مثال ہوا خموش
Its elegant and graceful pace is not noisy | Fast like lightning, like breeze it is quiet”
ميں نے کہا ، نہيں ہے يہ موٹر پہ منحصرہے جادہء حيات ميں ہر تيزپا خموش
I replied “This is not restricted to car | In the path of life every fleet footed is quiet
ہے پا شکستہ شيوہء فرياد سے جرسنکہت کا کارواں ہے مثال صبا خموش
The bell is footless from its habit of lamenting | The caravan of fragrance like zephyr is quiet
مينا مدام شورش قلقل سے پا بہ گلليکن مزاج جام خرام آشنا خموش
The decanter always walks on embers due to gurgling | But the nature of the gentle-moving wine-cup is quiet
شاعر کے فکر کو پر پرواز خامشي!سرمايہ دار گرمي آواز خامشي
To the poet’s thoughts the wings for flight are silence | The wealth of the voice’s warmth lies in silence”!
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — موٹر — 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 — The Motor Car — 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
- 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