اہل ہنر سے
English title: TO THE ARTISTS
مہر و مہ و مشتري ، چند نفس کا فروغعشق سے ہے پائدار تيري خودي کا وجود
Sun, moon and Jupiter shine their hour; | Your self burns on, fed by Love’s power.
تيرے حرم کا ضمير اسود و احمر سے پاکننگ ہے تيرے ليے سرخ و سپيد و کبود
Your creed knows nothing of race or hue: | No credit in white or black, or blue!
تيري خودي کا غياب معرکہ ذکر و فکرتيري خودي کا حضور عالم شعر و سرود
Where selfhood droops, doubts fight ding‐dong; | Where it blooms—a world of verse and song!
روح اگر ہے تري رنج غلامي سے زارتيرے ہنر کا جہاں دير و طواف و سجود
If your soul rot under slavery’s blight, | Your art an idolater’s soulless rite;
اور اگر باخبر اپني شرافت سے ہوتيري سپہ انس و جن ، تو ہے امير جنود
If sense of your own greatness sway you, | Legions of men and Jinn obey you!
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — اہل ہنر سے — 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: Zarb-e-Kalim — 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
- Poems from Iqbal — First edition, 1955Translation by V. G. Kiernan; Published English translations attributed to V. G. Kiernan; the 231 previously imported exact passages remain, with one additional independently reviewed final standalone line at PDF page 100. Each new locator names its exact passage scope.Source