اشکے چند بر افتراق ہندیان

اے ھمالہ ! اے اطک، اے رود گنگزیستن تا کی چنان بی آب و رنگ

O Himalayas! O Attock! O Ganges! How long shall we go on living sordidly like this?

پیر مردان از فراست بی نصیبنوجوانان از محبت بی نصیب

The old lack insight, the young are devoid of love.

شرق و غرب آزاد و ما نخچیر غیرخشت ما سرمایۂ تعمیر غیر

East and West are free, but we are slaves of others; our bricks go to the building of others’ mansions.

زندگانے بر مراد دیگرانجاودان مرگست، نے خواب گران

To live according to the wish of others; is not deep slumber; it is eternal death.

نیست این مرگی کہ آید ز آسمانتخم او می بالد ز اعماق جان

This is not a death that comes from the sky; its seed grows out of the depths of one’s soul.
(‘Death from the sky’ means natural death. ‘Death from the depth of the heart’ means spiritual death as a result of wrong ideological affiliations.)

صید او نے مردہ شو خواہد نہ گورنے ھجوم دوستان از نزد و دور

Its prey waits neither for the undertaker nor for the grave, nor for friends from far and near.

جامۂ کس در غم او چاک نیستدوزخ او آنسوی افلاک نیست

No clothes are torn in grief over his death, his hell is not on the other side of the skies.

در ھجوم روز حشر او را مجوہست در امروز او فردای او

Do not seek him among the crowd on the Day of Judgment, his tomorrow lies in his today.
(These verses describe the state of spiritual death and therefore the ceremonies usually performed on the natural death of a person are not performed on this occasion. Iqbal describes in Zabur-i ‘Ajam this kind of death: ‘This is a more subtle inner death which makes me tremble! Cutting one’s shroud with one’s own hands; seeing one’s death with one’s own eyes. This death lies in ambush for thee; fear it, for that is really our death’.)

ہر کہ اینجا دانہ کشت اینجا درودپیش حق آن بندہ را بردن چہ سود

What use is there to produce before God one; who has both sown the seed and reaped the fruit in this world?
(The idea that those who work for gain in this life only will be given their reward here, is based on the following verse of the Qur’an, xvii. 18: ‘Whoso desires this transitory life, We hasten to him therein what we please…’ After death, he will be deprived of the opportunity to experience Beatific Vision.)

امتے کز آرزو نیشی نخوردنقش او را فطرت از گیتی سترد

A nation that does not relish the prodding of desire is wiped off the face of the earth by Nature.

اعتبار تخت و تاج از ساحری استسخت چون سنگ این زجاج از ساحریست

It is through magic that the crown and the throne acquire authority; what is frail as glass becomes through magic bard as stone.

در گذشت از حکم این سحر مبینکافری از کفر، دینداری ز دین

Under the influence of this clear enchantment; Muslims abjured their faith and unbelievers, their unbelief,

ہندیان با یکدگر آویختندفتنہ ہای کہنہ باز انگیختند

The Indians quarrel with one another, having revived their old differences.

تا فرنگی قومی از مغرب زمینثالث آمد در نزاع کفر و دین

Until a Frankish nation from the land of the West; assumed the role of a mediator between Islam and kufr.

کس نداند جلوۂ آب از سرابانقلاب اے انقلاب اے انقلاب

Nobody knows water from mirage. Revolution, O revolution, O revolution!

اے ترا ہر لحظہ فکر آب و گلاز حضور حق طلب یک زندہ دل

O you who are always anxious for material sustenance, ask of God a living heart.

آشیانش گرچہ در آب و گل استنہ فلک سر گشتہ این یک دل است

Although its seat is in water and clay, yet the nine heavens are under its authority.

تا نپنداری کہ از خاک است اواز بلندی ہای افلاک است او

Do not think it belongs to the earth; it really comes from the highest heavens.

این جہان او را حریم کوی دوستاز قبای لالہ گیرد بوی دوست

The world is for it the Friend’s abode and gets the Friend’s smell from the tulip’s tunic.

ہر نفس با روزگار اندر ستیزسنگ رہ از ضربت او ریز ریز

It is constantly at war with the world, the stones on the path are broken to pieces by its strokes.

آشنای منبر و دار است اوآتش خود را نگہدار است او

It is familiar with the pulpit and the gibbet, and keeps a strict watch over its own fire.

آب جوی و بحر ہا دارد بہ برمی دہد موجش ز طوفانی خبر

It is only a streamlet but has oceans in its lap; its ripples bring tidings of storms.

زندہ و پایندہ بی نان تنورمیرد آن ساعت کہ گردد بی حضور

It is not by bread that it lives; it dies as soon as it loses its vision of the Truth.

چون چراغ اندر شبستان بدنروشن از وی خلوت و ہم انجمن

It is like a lamp in the dark chamber of the body: it illumines both multitude and solitude.

اینچنین دل، خود نگر، اﷲ مستجز بہ درویشی نمے آید بدست

Such a heart, ever watchful of itself and God-intoxicated, is not achieved except through Faqr.

اے جوان دامان او محکم بگیردر غلامی زادہ ئی آزاد میر

O young man, catch hold of its skirt firmly; you have been born in slavery, now live free.