ميں اورتو
English title: I AND YOU
My eye is unacquainted with the taste for the Sight your eye is the knower of Nature’s secret, so what?
My tongue is indebted to the complaint against time; the universe’s rotation depends on your will, so what?
The sky kept me wandering in garden like the breeze’s current; the sky has bestowed the abode over you, so what?
The wealth of your life is free of desire for gain in my heart is the anxiety of loss, so what?
Your planes are flying about in the air my ship is devoid of the sail, so what?
I became strong, so what, I became weak, so what? This happened, so what, that happened, so what?
Tranquillity does not exist to any extent in this rose-garden! If you became spring, and I became autumn, so what?
اس باغ میں یعنی دنیا میں کسی طور بھی قرار و قیام ممکن نہیں؛ تو بہار ہو گیا تو کیا؟ میں خزاں ہو گیا تو کیا؟
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — ميں اورتو — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Me and You — 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
- Bang-e-Dara: published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/bang-e-dara/3a/41.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source
