تکرار تھي مزارع و مالک ميں ايک روز
تکرار تھي مزارع و مالک ميں ايک روزدونوں يہ کہہ رہے تھے، مرا مال ہے زميں
One day a dispute arose between the farmer and the owner | Each of them was saying that the land belonged to him
کہتا تھا وہ، کرے جو زراعت اسي کا کھيتکہتا تھا يہ کہ عقل ٹھکانے تري نہيں
The farmer said that the field belonged to the cultivator | The owner said that the farmer had become demented
پوچھا زميں سے ميں نے کہ ہے کس کا مال توبولي مجھے تو ہے فقط اس بات کا يقيں
I asked the land as to whose property it was | It replied that it was believing only this:
مالک ہے يا مزارع شوريدہ حال ہےجو زير آسماں ہے ، وہ دھرتي کا مال ہے
Whether it be the owner or the wretched farmer | Whatever is under the sky is property of the land
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
- 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