سنا ہے ميں نے، کل يہ گفتگو تھي کارخانے ميں
سنا ہے ميں نے، کل يہ گفتگو تھي کارخانے ميںپرانے جھونپڑوں ميں ہے ٹھکانا دست کاروں کا
I have heard this was the talk in the factory yesterday | “The artisans only in old huts have their abode
مگر سرکار نے کيا خوب کونسل ہال بنواياکوئي اس شہر ميں تکيہ نہ تھا سرمايہ داروں کا
But what a good council hall the government has made | In this city the capitalists did not have any abode”
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