من ای دانشوران در پیچ و تابم
English title: This riddle is beyond me–reason is
من ای دانشوران در پیچ و تابمخرد را فہم این معنی محال است
Ye men of learning, I am in a maze, the mind this meaning cannot understand:
اے عقلمندو میں سخت الجھن اور بیقراری میں ہوں عقل کے لیے یہ حقیقت سمجھنا مشکل ہے
چسان در مشت خاکی تن زند دلکہ دل دشت غزالان خیال است
How in a hand of Dust there beats a heart wherein gazelles of Fancy rove the land.
مٹھی بھر مٹی میں دل کیسے ٹھہر جاتا ہے کہ دل تو خیال کے ہرنوں کا جنگل ہے ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Payam-e-Mashriq — من ای دانشوران در پیچ و تابم — 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 آربری — Published digital poem page (yxzcy1f9.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by آربری; 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 (yxzcy1f9.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