جاوید نامہفلک زحل
روح ہندوستان نالہ و فریاد می کند
روح ہندوستان نالہ و فریاد کرتی ہے،
The Spirit Of India Laments
شمع جان افسرد در فانوس ہندہندیان بیگانہ از ناموس ہند
Indian chandelier has no candle alight; Indians care no more for their honour.
مردک نامحرم از اسرار خویشزخمۂ خود کم زند بر تار خویش
One who is unaware of his potentials seldom tries to exploit those to their optimum 9the poet has said it equating him with a musical instrument).
بر زمان رفتہ می بندد نظراز تش افسردہ میسوزد جگر
He always lives in the past; his heart burns over that has gone-by (lacks in endeavours to improve his present and the future).
بند ہا بر دست و پای من ازوستنالہ ہای نارسای من ازوست
Because of such people my hands and feet are tied and my request goes unheard.
خویشتن را از خودی پرداختہاز رسوم کہنہ زندان ساختہ
They have surrendered their self-respect and ego; they have built a prison of rudundent customs around themselves.
آدمیت از وجودش دردمندعصر نو از پاک و ناپاکش نژند
Humanity is pains because of them and contemporary world is in agony due the standards it has set for determining sacred and evil.
بگذر از فقری کہ عریانی دہداے خنک فقری کہ سلطانی دہد
Give up that faqr which gives nakedness and blessed is the faqr that bestows upon a crown (comparison of Hindu and Muslim concepts of faqr).
الحذر از جبر و ہم از خوی صبرصابر و مجبور را زہر است جبر
God may save from oppression and also from the habit of tolerating oppression without protest; oppression, is poison both for the oppressor and the oppressed.
این بہ صبر پیہمی خوگر شودآن بہ جبر پیہمی خوگر شود
The oppressed gets used to it by tolerating it constantly and oppressor becomes habitual by perpetrating it unchecked.
ہر دو را ذوق ستم گردد فزونورد من "یالیت قومی یعلمون"
This attitude of the oppressed and the oppressors results in flourishing of the oppression; I pray that my nation comprehends this simple poit.
کی شب ہندوستان آید بروزمرد جعفر، زندہ روح او ہنوز
How can the dark night of India turns into bright day; though Ja’afar (traitor) is dead but his spirit still haunts India.
تا ز قید یک بدن وا می رہدآشیان اندر تن دیگر نہد
When this spirit (of traitor) gets free from a one person’s body it enters into another and makes it its abode.
گاہ او را با کلیسا ساز بازگاہ پیش دیریان اندر نیاز
At times it conspires in connivance with Christianity and at times shows gratitude to idol-worshipers (with reference to Muslim traitors of The Subcontinent).
دین او آئین او سوداگری استعنتری اندر لباس حیدری است
His beliefs and practices are mere commercial in nature; he is Antari dressed like Haidar (R.A.)
تا جہان رنگ و بو گردد دگررسم او آئین او گردد دگر
When there is change (of rulers) in the world, they also change (their loyalties).
پیش ازین چیزی دگر مسجود اودر زمان ما وطن معبود او
In the past they worshipped something else; today they worship watan (homeland).
ظاھر او از غم دین دردمندباطنش چون دیریان زنار بند
Overtly they are passionate about every religion but covertly they are simply non-believers.
جعفر اندر ہر بدن ملت کش استاین مسلمانی کہن ملت کش است
Spirit of Ja’afar in the body of any person is an enemy of Millat; such a Muslim is the killer of the Millat.
خند خندان است و با کس یار نیستمار اگر خندان شود جز مار نیست
Traitar has apprarently cordial relations with everyone, but he is friend of none; a snake, even when smiling, remains a snake.
از نفاقش وحدت قومی دونیمملت او از وجود او لیم
Because of his conspiring mischief the millat is shattered into splinters; his existence degrades a nation.
ملتے را ہر کجا غارتگری استاصل او از صادقی یا جعفری است
Wherever a nation has been doomed that has been because of a Sadiq or a Ja’afar (traitors).
الامان از روح جعفر الامانالامان از جعفران این زمان
God may save from the evil spirit of Ja’afar (traitor); especially from contemporary traitors.
۴۸ / ۶۲