Translations
Payam-e Mashriq by Allama Iqbal, in translations by M. Hadi Husain
This page shows only poems with translations by M. Hadi Husain.
Poems with translations
غزل شمارهٔ 35مثل آئینه مشو محو جمال دگران
Do not be like a mirror, which is taken up with others’ beauty. Cast away the thought of others from your mind.
غزل شمارهٔ 36جهان عشق نه میری نه سروری داند
No lordship and no mastership does the world of Love know. It is enough that it knows how to serve.
غزل شمارهٔ 37خواجه ئی نیست که چون بنده پرستارش نیست
There is no master who does not adore Him like a slave. There is no slave who, if he were a master, would not bid for Him.
غزل شمارهٔ 38بیا که بلبل شوریده نغمه پرداز است
Come, for the love-mad nightingale is busy singing songs. The tulip-bride is all bewitchery and grace.
غزل شمارهٔ 39خاکیم و تند سیر مثال ستارهایم
We are mere dust, but planet-like we swiftly move, and seek the shore of this blue sea.
غزل شمارهٔ 40عرب از سرشک خونم همه لالهزار بادا
O may Arabia become a tulip-field, thanks to my tears of blood. May Ajam, which has lost its fragrance, find a new spring in my breath!
غزل شمارهٔ 41نظر تو همه تقصیر و خرد کوتاهی
Your seeing is all error, your wisdom all defect. You never will get anywhere except through revelation.
غزل شمارهٔ 42سر خوش از بادهٔ تو خم شکنی نیست که نیست
There is no breaker of wine-jars not merrily drunk with your wine. There is no sweet-tongued poet who has not sucked rapture at your ruby-tinted lips.
غزل شمارهٔ 43اگرچه زیب سرش افسر و کلاهی نیست
Although he does not wear a crown or diadem, the beggar in Your street is no less than a king.
غزل شمارهٔ 44شعله در آغوش دارد عشق بی پروای من
My love in its abandon has a live flame in its arms. My sterile wisdom cannot raise a single spark.
غزل شمارهٔ 45بتان تازه تراشیدهای دریغ از تو
O you have carved new images, Alas! You have not dug into your inner self, Alas!

