Bal-e-Jibril · 80 of 179

ظلامِ بحر میں کھو کر سنبھل جا

Allama Iqbal
Bahrہزج مسدس محذوف
مفاعیلن مفاعیلن فعولن
arooz scans 3 of 4 lines

ظلامِ بحر میں کھو کر سنبھل جاarooz could not scan this line

تڑپ جا، پیچ کھا کھا کر بدل جا

نہیں ساحل تری قسمت میں اے موج

اُبھر کر جس طرف چاہے نِکل جا!

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.