Bal-e-Jibril · 145 of 179

ستارے کا پیغام

Allama Iqbal
Bahrمجتث مثمن مخبون محذوف مسکن
مفاعلن فَعِلاتن مفاعلن فِعْلن
arooz scans 3 of 4 lines

مجھے ڈرا نہیں سکتی فضا کی تاریکی

مِری سرشت میں ہے پاکی و دُرخشانیarooz could not scan this line

تُو اے مسافرِ شب! خود چراغ بن اپنا

کر اپنی رات کو داغِ جگر سے نُورانی

A small circle marks a line arooz could not fit to the poem’s bahr. That is a limit of arooz, not of the poet: the text may leave an izafat unwritten, a word may be missing from arooz’s dictionary, or the line may use a licence arooz does not yet model.

Source: ur.wikisource.org (PD-Pakistan)

Public domain — Allama Iqbal died in 1938

English translation as given in the Iqbal Demystified dataset. A translation is a separate work: the poem’s public-domain status does not extend to it.