يہ آيہ نو ، جيل سے نازل ہوئي مجھ پر
يہ آيہ نو ، جيل سے نازل ہوئي مجھ پرگيتا ميں ہے قرآن تو قرآن ميں گيتا
This new `verse’ was revealed to me from the jail that the Qur’an is in the Gita and the Gita is in the Qur’an.
کيا خوب ہوئي آشتي شيخ و برہمناس جنگ ميں آخر نہ يہ ہارا نہ وہ جيتا
How well friendship developed between Shaikh and Brahman in this battle after all neither this nor that was winning.
'مندر سے تو بيزار تھا پہلے ہي سے 'بدريمسجد سے نکلتا نہيں، ضدي ہے مسيتا
‘Badri’ was already disgusted with the temple; ‘Masita’ does not step out of the mosque, he is stubborn..
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