مسلمان اور تعليم جديد
English title: THE MUSLIMS AND MODERN EDUCATION
The preceptor’s teaching was, O foolish Muslim! ‘Necessary preparations are incumbent on the traveler.
The world’s ways have changed, such changes have come that those who were invaluable once are not even saleable now.
That bright flame of yours from which darkness escaped now is reduced to a spark, less bright than stars.
Cease to be the Invisible’s Lover, be the visible’s lover; now influence of the visible God is triumphant over nations.
In this garden success for your efforts is not possible; your snare is worn out and the fast-flying bird is clever.
In this age education is the cure for nations’ maladies: Education is like a lancet for the diseased blood.’
By the leader’s suggestions love of education developed in me. Obeying the command of Khizar is incumbent on the wanderer of the wilderness.
یک لحظ غافل گشتم و صد سالہ را ہم دور شد
But the discerning eye should see my misfortune: ‘Went to pull thorn from foot, the litter disappeared from the sight; I was negligent for a moment it moved by a hundered years.’
میں اپنے پاؤں سے کانٹا نکالنے لگا اور اتنی دیر میں محمل نظر سے اوجھل ہو گیا؛ ایک لمحہ کی غفلت میں سینکڑوں سال پیچھے رہ گیا۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — مسلمان اور تعليم جديد — 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 مسلمان اور تعليم جديد — Pinned repository content, commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 4595.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Muslims and Modern Education — 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
- 001_147: published English translation, source group 4595 — Pinned digital poem content, repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 4595.Translation by Dr M.A.K. Khalil; Reviewed English verse text retained; the following explanatory parenthesis is excluded from the translation passage.Source
- Muslim and Modern Education final Persian lines: published Urdu rendering — Pinned digital poem content, repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source group 4595.Translation by Translator not separately identified; Published Urdu rendering; the Urdu original half of the existing mixed couplet is excluded from these source anchors.Source
- Source group 4595, final standalone line after 001_147_008.Edition evidence