پھول
English title: THE FLOWER
O flower! Why do you care for the nightingale’s wounded heart | First you should darn the slits of your own shirt!
If you long for respect in the rose garden of existence | You should get accustomed to living entangled in thorns!
The juniper in the garden is free as well as chained to the soil | You should acquire freedom within these constraints!
With contentment give message of embarrassment to miserliness | Do not remain obliged to dew, you should empty the cup and the bottle!
It does not befit self respect that being picked from the garden | You should be put in some turban or pinned to some collar!
The dew disappeared from garden saying to the flower bud | If you love gardener’s oppression, you should create beauty
If you want to remain unacquainted with autumn | First you should abandon the desire for the beauty’s world
Look, in this alone is concealed your life’s perfection! | If you should be the decoration of some beauty’s robe!
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — پھول — 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
- 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 Mustansir Mir; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by Mustansir Mir”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source