انسان
English title: THE HUMAN RACE
منظر چمنستاں کے زيبا ہوں کہ نازيبامحروم عمل نرگس مجبور تماشا ہے
The sights of the garden may or may not be beautiful | The narcissus, unable to act, forced to watching is!
رفتار کي لذت کا احساس نہيں اس کوفطرت ہي صنوبر کي محروم تمنا ہے
It does not appreciate the pleasure of movement | The very nature of juniper devoid of longing is!
تسليم کي خوگر ہے جو چيز ہے دنيا ميںانسان کي ہر قوت سرگرم تقاضا ہے
Whatever is in the world is accustomed to submission | Every power of Man busy in pressing for his Longing is!
اس ذرے کو رہتي ہے وسعت کي ہوس ہر دميہ ذرہ نہيں ، شايد سمٹا ہوا صحرا ہے
This speck remains incessantly ambitious of expansion | Not a speck but perhaps the constricted wilderness he is
چاہے تو بدل ڈالے ہےئت چمنستاں کييہ ہستي دانا ہے ، بينا ہے ، توانا ہے
If he wills he can change the face of the garden | This entity wise, clear-sighted and powerful is
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — انسان — 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