About This Blog

Showing posts with label Allama Iqbal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allama Iqbal. Show all posts

Sunday, September 3, 2017

A Glimpse Into Iqbal's Letters to The Women He Adored


This is the Iqbal we normally are not aware of.




Read out only two excerpts here. There were more. Some depict even more neediness... to the extent that it pierces through your heart!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Three Words: Sculpted, Worshiped & Smashed



Just cherishing the beauty that 'Farsi' is, and celebrating the ecstasy that it brings when coupled with the intensity of experience. You could relate to it too... All you need to do is to find a point of reference with either of the two: Pygmalion or Galatea!



Please have a seat, grab some coffee and make yourself comfortable... 





فرزانہ بہ گفتارم دیوانہ بہ کردارم
از بادہ شوق تو ہشیارم و مستم من

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Neem Kush



Meer i sipah na-sazaa, Lashkaryaan shikastaa suff

Aah voh teer i neem kush, jis kaa na ho koi huduf




Commander beyond reproach, the soldiers disarrayed,
Woe the half-drawn arrow, that has nowhere to go!


Iqbal

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Teray Ishq Ki Inteha


ترے عشق کي انتہا چاہتا ہوں

ترے عشق کي انتہا چاہتا ہوں
مري سادگي ديکھ کيا چاہتا ہوں
ستم ہو کہ ہو وعدہ بے حجابي
کوئي بات صبر آزما چاہتا ہوں
يہ جنت مبارک رہے زاہدوں کو
کہ ميں آپ کا سامنا چاہتا ہوں
ذرا سا تو دل ہوں ، مگر شوخ اتنا
وہي لن تراني سنا چاہتا ہوں
کوئي دم کا مہماں ہوں اے اہل محفل
چراغ سحر ہوں ، بجھا چاہتا ہوں
بھري بزم ميں راز کي بات کہہ دي
بڑا بے ادب ہوں ، سزا چاہتا ہوں



Translation:


The ultimate of Your Love is what I crave
Am I not a simpleton to be this brave!


May there be the callous vow of unveiling
My composure be tested, I make this brave!


May this Paradise be rejoiced by the pious
To be a beholder to Thine countenance is all I desire


Though but its a tiny little heart yet so bold
To heed to the same “Lan taranâ ” is what I aspire


My stay is that for a flash O those of the gathering!
The morning star I am, leave the sky as I fire  


In the packed house I disclosed the secret whispers
The insolent that I am, its the penance that I require
















Poet: Allama Mohammed Iqbal
Singer: Malika Pukhraaj
Inapt translation: mine

Monday, August 23, 2010

Aql-o-Dil



Nizamuddin Awlia  (d. 1325 A.D.) of the Chishti Order of the Sufis, taught the following: "For a dervish, three things are necessary. They all begin with an 'ain' (an Arabic letter), i.e., Ishq (love), Aql (intellect) and Ilm (knowledge)."

And it happens in just the same order. Without the flame of the torch of a heart in Love, one travels through the mysteries of life like a blind man making his way through a carnival in full swing.




Iqbal's عقل و دل (Aql-o-Dil) Reason (/intellect) And Heart reads:






عقل نے ایک دن یہ دل سے کہا 





بھولے بھٹکے کی رہنما ہوں میں 





ہوں زمیں پر ، گزر فلک پہ مرا 





دیکھ تو کس قدر رسا ہوں میں 





کام دنیا میں رہبری ہے مرا 





مثل خضر خجستہ پا ہوں میں 





ہوں مفسر کتاب ہستی کی 





مظہر شان کبریا ہوں میں 





بوند اک خون کی ہے تو لیکن 





غیرت لعل بے بہا ہوں میں 





دل نے سن کر کہا یہ سب سچ ہے 





پر مجھے بھی تو دیکھ ، کیا ہوں میں 





راز ہستی کو تو سمجھتی ہے 





اور آنکھوں سے دیکھتا ہوں میں 





ہے تجھے واسطہ مظاہر سے 





اور باطن سے آشنا ہوں میں 





علم تجھ سے تو معرفت مجھ سے 





تو خدا جو ، خدا نما ہوں میں 





علم کی انتہا ہے بے تابی 





اس مرض کی مگر دوا ہوں میں 





شمع تو محفل صداقت کی 





حسن کی بزم کا دیا ہوں میں 





تو زمان و مکاں سے رشتہ بپا 





طائر سدرہ آشنا ہوں میں 





کس بلندی پہ ہے مقام مرا 





عرش رب جلیل کا ہوں میں

Aql nay ik din yeh dil say kaha
Bhulay bhatkay ki rahnuma hoon mein

Hoon zamin par, guzar falaq pay mira
Dekh tto kis qadar rasa hoon mein

Kaam dunya mein rehbari ha mira
Mislay Khizr khajastah pa hoon mein

Hoon mufassir kitabay hasti ki
Mazharay shanay kibriya hoon mein

Bund ik khon ki hay ttu lekin
Gheratay la'lay bebaha hoon mien

Dil nay sun kar kaha yeh sab sach hay
Par mujhay bhi tto dekh, kiya hoon mein

Razay hasti ko ttu samajhti hay
Oor ankhon say dekhta hoon mein!

Hay tujhay wasta mazahir say
Oor batin say aashna hoon mein

Ilm tujh say tto ma'rifat mujh say
Ttu Khudaju, Khudanuma hoon mein

Ilm ki entehaa hai betabi
Is marz ki magar dawa hoon mein

Shamma ttu mehfilay sidaqat ki
Husn ki bazm ka diya hoon mein

Ttu zaman-o-makan say rishtah bapa
Tairay sidrah aashna hoon mien

Kis bulandi pay hay maqam mira
Arsh Rabbay Jaleel ka hoon mein!
TRANSLATION:
Reason said to the heart one day
"I am the beacon for the astray and the lost
Being on earth, its the heavens I negotiate
Do ye look at the reach of my access!
Guidance on earth is my affair
In character of the benign Khidr is my symbol
Interpreter to the scripture of self am I
Manifestation of the glory of the Magnificent I am
The droplet of blood that ye are
Yet the envy of the priceless ruby is I"
Listening this the heart replied, "True it is
But you look at me as well, to know what am I
You appreciate the enigma of life
Witnessing it through my vision is but I 
The manifest order is a concern of you
And an acquaintance of the inward am I
Of you is the learning, and the Knowledge of the Divine is mine 
A seeker of the God is you, An expression of the God am I
Discontent is the absolute of reason
But the cure to this malady is I
In you is the torch of the assembly of truth
Light of the House of Beauty is but I
Belonging to the coordinates of time and space are you
The Bird intimate to the Sidrah (pedestal higher than the 7th sky) am I
Look at the heights of my station
The throne of the Majestic Lord is I!





PS: The translation is as per my humble understanding, and in its imperfection bears no closeness to the beauty of the original verse.

PS 2: Rumi's take on the same issue: Intellect Versus Love has been shared in the following comments.