''اصل شہود و شاہد و مشہود ايک ہے''
''اصل شہود و شاہد و مشہود ايک ہے''غالب کا قول سچ ہے تو پھر ذکر غير کيا
‘The search, the witness and the thing witnessed are the same’: If this saying of Ghalib is true there is no strangeness.
کيوں اے جناب شيخ! سنا آپ نے بھي کچھکہتے تھے کعبے والوں سے کل اہل دير کيا
O Shaikh! Have you heard something? What the temple’s people’s say to the Ka`bah’s people!
ہم پوچھتے ہيں مسلم عاشق مزاج سے!الفت بتوں سے ہے تو برہمن سے بير کيا
‘We ask the Muslim with the disposition of a lover: If you love the idols why is enmity with the Brahman?’
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — ظر یفا نہ — 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
- Kulliyat-e-Iqbal (Urdu), special edition and Bang-e-Dara contents — Special edition, 1990; cited for the separately numbered humorous-poem contents only.Primary source used to document this poem’s language or title.Source
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — — 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