Jise Zaiba Kahin Azad Bande, Hai Wohi Zaiba
Slavery—exile from the love of beauty:
Beauty—whatever free men reckon so;
Ke Dunya Mein Faqat Mardan-e-Hur Ki Ankh Hai Beena
Trust no slave’s eyes, clear sight and liberty
Go hand in hand. His own resolves bestow
Zamane Ke Sumander Se Nikala Gohar-e-Farda
The empire of To‐day on him who fishes
To‐morrow’s pearl up from Time’s undertow.
Meri Ikseer Ne Shishe Ko Bakhshi Sakhti-e-Khara
The Frankish glassblowers’ arts can make stone run:
My alchemy makes glass flint‐hard.
Magar Kya Gham Ke Meri Asteen Mein Hai Yad-e-Baiza
Pharaoh plotted and plots against me; but what harm?
Heaven lifts my hand, like Moses’, white as snow;
Jise Haq Ne Kiya Ho Neestan Ke Wastay Paida
Earth’s rubbish‐heaps can never quell this spark
God struck to light whole deserts, His flambeau!
Mohabbat Astan-e-Qaisar-o-Kasra Se Beparwa
Love, self‐beholding, self‐sustaining, stands
Un‐awed at the gates of Caesar or Khosro;
‘Ke Bar Fatraak-e-Sahib Doulatay Bistam Sar-e-Khud Ra’
If moon or Pleiades fall my prey, what wonder—
Myself bound fast to the Prophet’s saddle‐bow!
Ghubar-e-Rah Ko Bakhsha Farogh-e-Wadi-e-Sina
He—Guide, Last Envoy, Lord of All—
Lent brightness of Sinai to our dust;
Wohi Quran, Wohi Furqan, Wohi Yasin, Wohi Taha
Love’s eyes, not slow to kindle, hail him Alpha and Omega,
Chapter, and Word, and Book. I would not go
Abhi Iss Behar Mein Baqi Hain Lakhon Lulu’ay Lala
Pearl‐diving there, for reverence of Sina‘i;
But in these tides a million pearls still grow.
Is this the correct translation ? Where is it taken from.
ReplyDeletealmost correct translation
DeleteThe translation tries to rhymize it. Turning the actual meaning upside down.
DeleteBad choiceof words makes it impossible to get the exact meaning. As they say it is merely some sort of english translation but not the interpretation.
Rhymes are glossy but devoid of any meaning which the translationshould have achieved. Irnoy is this that the translation makes it much more harder even impossible to get the exact meaning.
Good review...
Deletethanks for the hard work.
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ReplyDeleteThis translation is published by Iqbal Academy Pakistan which is an oldest institute on Allama Iqbal's work. We picked it from their website AllamaIqbal.com
Ghubar-e-Rah Ko Bakhsha Farogh-e-Wadi-e-Sina
ReplyDeleteOf Sinai to our dust; Love’s eyes, not slow
I am a regular visitor of this web and really appreciate your work but guy i dont think so the above mention couplet is a correct translation
Salahuddin Misbah
Bro Salahuddin Misbah
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Lent brightness of Sinai to our dust;
Actually these all translations are done by Iqbal Academy but very badly arranged in their books, so some errors always remains. Please read it again.
Thanks bro
ReplyDeleteMay almighty give us courage to read and act on the verses of Iqbal
Salahuddin
Bohat khoobsurat!
ReplyDeletecan anyone please elaborate the meaning of second stanza:
ReplyDelete"bharosa kar nahi...
...aankh hai beena"
Bharosa Kar Nahin Sakte Ghulamon Ki Baseerat Par
ReplyDeleteKe Dunya Mein Faqat Mardan-e-Hur Ki Ankh Hai Beena
We cannot trust on the intellectual sense of slaves, only (Mardaan e Hur) brave people has an intelectual understanding
*Hur Razi Allah Talah Anha was a Yazid commander who was ordered by Umar Saad to arrest Imam Hussain Razi Allah Talah Anha but after hearing the reason of Imam Hussain R.A traveling towards Syria he left his Army and received sacrifise his life in the battle of Karbala
Salahuddin
Kya ye un janab e hur ki bat kr rhe hen Allama iqbal?
DeleteIqbal o Galib o FAiz ko parrh Lo. Tumhayn Urdu-sahyari parrhne ki zaroorat khtm/
ReplyDeleteMureed Dasti.
is this a complete poem
ReplyDeleteit is also a naat
ReplyDeleteTell me meaning of WADI-E-SINA ?? Where is this wadi ? tell me in detail
ReplyDeleteWhat nonsense !
ReplyDeleteYou people are making mockery of work of Iqbal by putting such a ridiculous translation.
If you can't put proper English translation at least don't write pure bull shit with no meaning or connection to actual urdu verses.
The person who is admin or editor of this site seems to be some illitate or purely dumb person . He is not even realising what is written as "English translation
to those complaining about the translation, i agree that the translation does not do justice but please suggest the right translation if you have it. If i had it, i would! WaSalam
ReplyDeleteThe meaning is wrong and interpretation ridiculous:
ReplyDeleteThe verse is correct:
Bharosa Kar Nahin Sakte Ghulamon Ki Baseerat Par
Ke Dunya Mein Faqat Mardan-e-Hur Ki Ankh Hai Beena
The words [SLAVE] and [MARDAAN e HUR] are translated WRONG
We cannot trust on the intellectual sense of slaves, only (Mardaan e Hur) brave people has an intelectual understanding.
Following translation is done by a person who does not know the simple word Hur=Azaad (Hurriat=Azaadi) in simple translation. Soch kee Azaadi Vs soch ki Ghulami
Let us CRY and DIE on following "innocent" translation:
*Hur Razi Allah Talah Anha was a Yazid commander who was ordered by Umar Saad to arrest Imam Hussain Razi Allah Talah Anha but after hearing the reason of Imam Hussain R.A traveling towards Syria he left his Army and received sacrifise his life in the battle of Karbala
need lots of work in making translation easy
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