Bal-e-Jibril · 169 of 179

فلسفی

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

بلند بال تھا، لیکن نہ تھا جسور و غیور

حکیم سِرِّ محبّت سے بے نصیب رہاarooz could not scan this line

پھرا فضاؤں میں کرگس اگرچہ شاہیں وار

شکارِ زندہ کی لذّت سے بے نصیب رہا

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.