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چه خوش بودی اگر مرد نکوییز بند باستان آزاد رفتی
How nice a thing it were if every traveler who wants to travel far and fast could go free from the trammels of the past.
کیا اچھا ہوتا کہ اگر نیک خو مرد ؛ گزرے ہوئے لوگوں کے بندھنوں سے آزاد رہ کر زندگی بسر کرتا ہے۔
اگر تقلید بودی شیوهٔ خوبپیمبر هم ره اجداد رفتی
If blind conformity were good, the Prophet himself would have gone the way of Arabs in an earlier day.
اگر تقلید اچھی بات ہوتی؛ تو ہمارے رسول پاک ﷺ بھی ابا و اجداد کا راستہ اختیار کرتے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original Persian transcription: ) — Pinned Ganjoor data commit a64968e78425b2e8c7904fbdf5289fba8251a757; the underlying printed edition is not identified by the export.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- payam-e-mashriq: published English translation by ہادی حسین — Published digital poem page (q7n7ijxy.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by ہادی حسین; 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 میاں عبدالرشید — Published digital poem page (q7n7ijxy.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by میاں عبدالرشید; Published Urdu translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source