...میری تمام سرگزشت

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میں، کہ میری غزل میں ہے آتشِ رفتہ کا سراغ
میری تمام سرگزشت کھوۓ ہوؤں کی جستجو
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خونِ دل و جگر سے ہے میری نوا کی پرورش
ہے رگ ساز میں رواں صاحب ساز کا لہو

-اقبال

How else could he have defined his art...

Comments

Uni said…
*sigh*.. I WISH I could understand this thing..

Could you perhaps, try your hand at translating it? Or ... er .. for dimwitted souls like me, maybe explain in a few lines what he MEANS by this....

JazakAllah.. :S
1:39 AM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
:)

You know what, I am taking a course this semester called Translation studies and I have realised that strangely Iqbal's poetry resists translation but yes I will try explaining what he means in another post soon inshaAllah. Will write it for you specially :)

Wa Iyyaki!
5:59 AM
Salman Latif said…
Awesome!! (:
Thanks for sharing
The lost still seek the destiny though - if only Iqbal had known whither would be recede...*sad*
1:16 AM
Anonymous said…
Uni's comment took me back to my.. u know what days :)

I remember Dr. I.S saying somethign of the similar kind. Remember he quoted Iqbal in that too. You write or create only when you go through something harsh or something that hurts you alot. "jigar ka khoon hona" kinda stuff...I ccan't even explain it here. I think I should better leave it before I ruin it!
2:37 AM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
Salman:

True. If only people read and understood Iqbal... Sigh



Asma:

:) you should have elaborated more on this. You've read Iqbal so much, ma sha Allah!
6:49 PM
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