عرفي
English title: URFI
Published Urdu translations cover some, but not all, Persian verses in this poem.
The imagination of Urfi has created a mansion, which has became the envy of Sina* and Farabi**
On the subject of Love he wrote such music | By which red tears are still available to eyes
One day my heart made this complaint at his grave | “Tunes of restlessness no longer come from world’s assembly
The disposition of the world’s people has changed so much | That such condition of restlessness has gone from the world
The midnight wailing of the poet is offensive to the ear | When assembly’s eye be unaware of pleasure of sleeplessness
How can somebody’s flame of lament remove darkness? | When the morning’s light is unwelcome for nightly worshipers”
Call came from grave “Reduce complaint against world’s people | ‘Strike the tune harder if the taste for music has become low
حدی را تیز تر می خواں چو محمل را گراں بینی
Sing the Hudi faster if the camel’s litter has become heavy.’
اگر ناقے کی پشت پر کجاوہ بھاری ہو اور ناقے کی رفتار سُست ہوجائے تو حدی کے ترانے تیز کردے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — عرفي — 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
- Original digital source for restored final line in عرفي — Pinned repository content, commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 4556.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — The Poet Saiyyid Muhammad Jamal Al-Din Urfi Shirazi — 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
- 001_142: published English translation, source group 4556 — Pinned digital poem content, repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 4556.Translation by Dr M.A.K. Khalil; Reviewed English verse text retained; the Hudi footnote is excluded from the translation passage.Source
- Urfi final line: published Urdu rendering — آپ کا فیصلہ, July 2015; quoted in the named author’s article.Translation by Not separately named; Urdu rendering is quoted in this article.; Article author: محمد یوسف اصلاحی; translator not separately named.Source
- Source group 4556, final standalone line after 001_142_007.Edition evidence