تضمين بر شعر صائب
English title: BASED ON A VERSE OF SA’IB
O Iqbal! In what a place you have constructed your nest! In this garden song is the prelude to nightingale’s disgrace!
Though you are planting the sparks of the Valley of Aiman; sprouting of seed of Sinai is not possible in this soil.
The bud cannot be a flower even with the force of breath; where everything is devoid of the exigency of self-development.
Outrageous that the nature of garden’s denizens is asleep; neither old age’s heart is awake nor the youth is courageous.
When the intelligent hearts fall asleep in breasts; for the singer sweet music is changed to poison.
Fly away from this garden if music’s restraint is impossible; as better than this assembly is the seclusion of some wilderness.
‘Manifestation of Lailah is much better in wilderness; city’s strait is unable to contain wilderness’ beauty.’
یہی بہتر ہے کہ لیلی بیاباں میں جلوہ گر ہو، شہر کی تنگ گلیاں صحرا کے حسن کی تاب نہیں لا سکتیں۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — تضمين بر شعر صائب — 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 — Based On A Verse Of Sa’Ib — 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/56.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source