بے جرات رندانہ ہر عشق ہے روباہي
English title: Without a toper's courage
بے جرات رندانہ ہر عشق ہے روباہيبازو ہے قوي جس کا ، وہ عشق يداللہي
Without a toper's courage, Love consists of naught save trick and guile; a man, whose Love of God is great, has brawny arms and is agile.
جو سختي منزل کو سامان سفر سمجھےاے وائے تن آساني ! ناپيد ہے وہ راہي
Alas the love of case and rest among the pilgrims seems profound; a man, who journey's toils may deem, as steed and food, is nowhere found.
!وحشت نہ سمجھ اس کو اے مردک ميدانيکہسار کي خلوت ہے تعليم خود آگاہي
O men of plains do not think that I teach the beastly mode and art the lonely desert arid the mounts the man Self knowledge can impart.
دنيا ہے رواياتي ، عقبي ہے مناجاتي!در باز دو عالم را ، اين است شہنشاہي
This world observes traditions old, in world to come mere hymns can serve; forge both worlds and stick to God, if kingly grandeur you wish to deserve.
تم دونوں جہانوں کو چھوڑ دو ۔ دنیا اور آخرت دونوں سے بے نیاز ہو کر صرف اللہ کے ہو جاوَ ۔ یہی اصل بادشاہی ہے ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — بے جرات رندانہ ہر عشق ہے روباہي — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Zarb-e-Kalim English translation at allama-iqbal.com — — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Syed Akbar Ali Shah; English Translation by: Syed Akbar Ali ShahSource
- Zarb-e-Kalim: published Urdu rendering at Iqbal Rahber — Public published source page; pinned snapshot rahber-mixed-mehrab-14-poem.txt.Translation by Not separately identified; Published Urdu rendering from Iqbal Rahber; no translator is separately identified.Source
