دختران ملت

بہل اے دخترک این دلبری ہامسلمان را نزیبد کافری ہامنہ دل بر جمال غازہ پروردبیاموز از نگہ غارتگری ہا

Learn O’ daughterling this loveliness trend; to Muslim suits not the heathen’s blend.
You need not a beauty of rouge and scent; with the chaste eyes teach thy charming bent.*
* Iqbal has used ‘Gharat Gari’ again in line 4 which means ‘robbery’. In amatory language of this sub-continent and Persia, it means loveliness.

نگاہ تست شمشیر خدا دادبہ زخمش جان ما را حق بما داددل کامل عیار ن پاک جان بردکہ تیغ خویش را ب از حیا داد

A God-given sword thy glance to thee; whose wounds thus gave my full right to me.
The heart of great sage that holy soul took; as she tempered her sword with bashful look.

ضمیر عصر حاضر بے نقاب استگشادش در نمود رنگ و ب استجہانتابی ز نور حق بیاموزکہ او با صد تجلی در حجاب است

At last modern age shows her conscience lo! They feel quite happy with false pomp and show.
A tip for world’s tight learn from His light; with hundred visions who hids from sight.

جہان را محکمی از امہات استنہادشان امین ممکنات استاگر این نکتہ را قومی نداندنظام کار و بارش بے ثبات است

The world is stable from the mother’s grace; her kind nature guards the whole human race.
To this point if the nations didn’t get; the whole world order would soon up set.*
* Here a ‘mumknat’ means the mankind, all possible (created things. It also means possibilities but it does not apply here.

مرا داد این خرد پرور جنونینگاہ مادر پاک اندرونیز مکتب چشم و دل نتوان گرفتنکہ مکتب نیست جز سحر و فسونی

That nation is lucky in whose hard race; a change the world espied on each man’s face.
What happen’d to him in this world’s race; can be seen now from their mother’s face.

خنک ن ملتی کز وارداتشقیامتہا ببیند کایناتشچہ پیش ید، چہ پیش افتاد او راتوان دید از جبین امہاتش

This craze she gave me for sharp wits sense; my kind mother’s sacred inner glance.
In schools, my heart and eyes did’nt get calm; no schools are these but magic and charm.

اگر پندی ز درویشی پذیریہزار امت بمیرد تو نمیریبتولی باش و پنھان شو ازین عصرکہ در غوش شبیری بگیری

If you pay a heed once, to this poor guy; may die thousand nations but ye won’t die.
Hid from this Age like Batool if you can; in thy lap too there may be a Hussain.

ز شام ما برون ور سحر رابہ قر ن باز خوان اہل نظر راتو میدانی کہ سوز قرأت تودگرگون کرد تقدیر عمر را

From my evening’s dusk get a dawn new; to seeing eyes read the Koran anew.
From thy reading’s flame you know that fate; had totally changed Omar the Great.*
* Before embracing Islam, Hazrat Omar (R.A.) heard that her sister alongwith her husband had embraced Islam. In rage he went to her house and heard her reciting the Holy Quran, which melted his heart, and he too joined the fold of Islam.