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Allama Iqbal's Poems
A Mother's Dream
One night while sleeping I dreamt Seeing which I began To get impatient I saw that To a place I am going Where everywhere was dark And paths are not reaching As I proceeded With the confidence I gathered A queue I saw Where boys had assembled Emerald-like garment They were wearing In every hand A little lamp was burning Without making any noise To and fro they were moving Lord alone knows Where exactly were they going? While in this thought My son did I find Standing in this set And left behind. He was at the back 'coz he was not quick. The lamp in his hand Was not getting burnt. I said 'Dear One! Remember me. Leaving me behind, Where have you come? Restless I am In your separation Enjoining I am A necklace of tears To us you have showed No concern at all The wound once healed Loyal you are not at all When saw the children My fret and fume Turning his face The reply came If you are sad When from you I separate Neither for your lad Is there any profit (in separation)! Saying this, the child For sometime remained quiet. Then lamp in his hand held He spoke thus: Are you wondering, What to this is happening? Your tears flowing Has barred it from burning. |
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The Choice is Yours!
If the kings know not their Sustainer they are beggars, And if the beggars do they are Darius and Jamshed; Freedom of the heart is sovereignity; stomach is death, The choice is yours; heart or stomach? Note: Iqbal placed a great value for disciplining of Selfhood and the cultivation of Ego. Iqbal held the beggar , whose poverty possessed the nature of Hazrat Ali (the fourth Caliph of Islam), to be more superior than Darius and Alexander. Iqbal's own existence was a glowing example of his idea of self-realization. In the above verses, Iqbal exhorts to others what he practiced himself till the dying day. (summarized from Glory of Iqbal, Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi)
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The Ideal Woman
Fret not thyself To calculate the profit and the loss, Being content to tread the well-worn path Our fathers went before. Be wary of Time's depredations, and to thy broad breast Gather thy children close; these meadow-chicks, Unfledged as yet to fly, have fallen far From their warm nest. High, high the carvings are That wrestle with thy soul; be conscious still And ever of thy model, Fatimah, So that thy branch may bear a new Hussein, Our garden blossom with the Golden Age.' Note: Allama Iqbal is warning the Muslim Women to guard themselves from the conspiracies of Modern Civilization. He exhorts them to remain firm on the footsteps of Lady Fatimah (ra) and to bring up her children with the qualities of Hussein (ra). [Jaihoon] * source : jaihoon.com/iqbal English translation by AJ Arberry, The Mysteries of Selflessness, translation of Iqbal's Asrar-o-Ramuz.
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Prayer of a child
On my lips is coming a wish-like prayer Lord! May my life burn like a candle-like fire! With my breath may the darkness depart, With my light let every corner ignite. Let my breath add to the beauty of my nation Like how a flower adds to the beauty of a garden I wish my life were a moth, O lord! In love if I was with the flame of knowledge, O Lord! May my task be to defend the poor To love those who at heart are weak and sore O My Allah! Save me from doing what is bad On the path that is right, on that You lead!
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