کارخانے کا ہے مالک مردک ناکردہ کار
کارخانے کا ہے مالک مردک ناکردہ کارعيش کا پتلا ہے، محنت ہے اسے ناسازگار
The owner of the factory is a useless man | He is very pleasure loving, hard work does not suit him
حکم حق ہے ليس للا نسان الا ماسعيکھائے کيوں مزدور کي محنت کا پھل سرمايہ دار
God’s command is “Laisa lil Insani Illa Ma Sa‘a” | Fruit of laborer’s work should not be usurped by the capitalist
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