دل

دل ن بحر است کو ساحل نورزدنہنگ از ہیبت موجش بلرزداز ن سیلی کہ صد ہامون بگیردفلک با یک حباب او نیرزد

The heart is a sea which likes no shore, a shark too shivers from his wave’s roar.
Like tempest which takes jungles of rubble, the whole sky’s worth, not alike his bubble.
(Here nahang (alligator) is probably the Satan… Iqbal has explained different states of heart: Sometimes a huge sea in which the whole cosmos can be contained. As such his heart is not a mere lump of flesh which beats in bosom. It is a place in which God himself likes to live when He loves a man.)

دل ما تش و تن موج دودشتپید دمبدم ساز وجودشبہ ذکر نیم شب جمعیت اوچو سیمابی کہ بندو چوب عودش

My heart is a fire, a smoke my frame, my being’s harp burns with a constant flame.
From mid night prayers the heart gets a calm, like mercury* closed in aloe- wood balm.@
* The mercury was killed (to make calx) in aloe wood in old days. Aloe wood is called ood (Ud) in Arabic and Persian. (It also means lute or harp). It gives a sweet smelling fragrance when it burns. @ Balm: ointment that which gives peace of mind or consolation.)

زمانہ کار او را میبرد پیشکہ مرد خود نگہدار است درویشہمین فقر است و سلطانی کہ دل رانگہ داری چو دریا گوہر خویش

His help the world seeks like his slave own, since he guarded self with saintly tone.
This is faqr and kingship which guards the heart, as sea guards pearls like a best work of art.

نہ نیروی خودی را زمودینہ بند از دست و پای خود گشودیخرد زنجیر بودی دمے رااگر در سینۂ او دل نبودے

The Ego’s power he did not try, his hands and feet too opened no tie.
The wisdom to man is sometimes a chain, if he had no heart* to check and restrain.

تو میگوئی کہ دل از خاک و خون استگرفتار طلسم کاف و نون استدل ما گرچہ اندر سینۂ ماستولیکن از جھان ما برون است

You say the heart is the Khak and Khoon, a work of magic of Kaf and Nun.*
My heart is though in the bosom of mine, it is yet beyond the pale of world thine.

جہان مھر و مہ زناری اوستگشاد ھر گرہ از زاری اوستپیامی دہ ز من ہندوستان راغلام، زاد از بیداری اوست

The world of Sun and Moon, slave of his thread, each tie will be ope from tears lie can shed.
To ‘Hind’ please convey a message of me, when a slave is wide awake he is free.

من و تو کشت یزدان، حاصل است اینعروس زندگی را محمل است اینغبار راہ شد دانای اسرارنپنداری کہ عقل است این، دل است این

We are God’s harvest its yield is heart, for life’s bride, it is the lady cart!
He told the ‘dust of path’ His Secret Acts, was it due to wisdom or heart’s own tacts?

گہی جویندۂ حسن غریبےخطیبی منبر او از صلیبیگہی سلطان با خیل و سپاہیولی از دولت خود بے نصیبی

To that rare beauty my heart seeks again, to speaker* whose pulpit was ‘cross’ and slain.
To the King* often with lancers and force, to wealth who never touched at any course.
* Speaker: Refers to Mansoor Hallaj. TheKing: Sultan Noor-ud-Din Zangi. Sultan N D Zangi raised his banner for Jehad and fought vigorously for 28 years during his reign, from 541 A.H. to 569 A.H. He was victorious in every battle he fought. He ammassed no wealth except the dust of his face during fighting which he had collected in a hand-kerchief. He left a will that when he will be lowered in grave that dust should be rubbed at his face. His will was fulfilled in like manner.)

جہان دل، جہان رنگ و بو نیستدرو پست و بلند و کاخ و کو نیستزمین و سمان و چار سو نیستدرین عالم بجز اللہ ہو نیست

The heart’s world is not world of pomp ‘an show, no lanes and doors, there nor homes high and low.
Neither earth and sky nor the four nooks too, there is none in this world save ‘Allah hoo’.

نگہ دید و خرد پیمانہ وردکہ پیماید جھان چار سو رامی شامی کہ دل کردند نامشبخویش اندر کشید این رنگ و بو را

The glance brought eyes and wisdom a tape band, to measure four sides and all the world’s land.
Who drinks the whole wines whom we named heart, who sucks within it all beauties of art.

محبت چیست تاثیر نگاہی استچہ شیرین زخمی از تیر نگاہی استبہ صید دل روی، ترکش بیندازکہ این نخچیر، نخچیر نگاہی است

What is the love? An impact of glance, which gives a sweet prick of the eye’s lance.
If you seek heart’s hand? Throw quiver and bow, this game is the game of glance and eye brow?