گذشتی تیز گام ای اختر صبح
English title: O morning star, you came and swiftly fled
گذشتی تیز گام ای اختر صبحمگر از خواب ما بیزار رفتی
Swift-paced you have departed, star of dawn! —
Perhaps disgusted that we slumbered on.
اے صبح کے ستارے تو بہت تیزی سے گزر گیا شاید تو ہماری غفلت سے بیزار گیا (تو ہم سے ناراض ہو گیا) ۔
من از ناآگہی گم کردہ راھمتو بیدار آمدی بیدار رفتی
It was through ignorance I lost the way —
Wakeful you arrived, wakeful you have gone.
میں نے بے خبری کی وجہ سے راستہ اپنا گم کر دیا اپنا مقصد حیات حاصل نہ کر سکا ۔ لیکن تو بیدار آیا تھا اور بیدار چلا گیا ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Payam-e-Mashriq — گذشتی تیز گام ای اختر صبح — 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: Payam-e-Mashriq — 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
- payam-e-mashriq: published English translation by مخدوم حسان — Published digital poem page (xeg5bzcq.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by مخدوم حسان; Published English translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source
- payam-e-mashriq: published Urdu translation by حمیداللہ ہاشمی — Published digital poem page (xeg5bzcq.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by حمیداللہ ہاشمی; Published Urdu translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source
