Allama Iqbal's Famous Poem On Guru Nanak | Nanak | Baang-e-Dara | Folk Pakistan
#AllamaIqbal's #FamousPoem On #GuruNanak | #Nanak | #BaangEDara | #FolkPakistan Qaum ne paiġhām-e-gautam kī zarā parvā na kī The nation could not care less about Gautama’s message— qadr pahchānī na apne gauhar-e-yak-dāna kī It did not know the price of its unique pearl! aah bad-qismat rahe āvāz-e-haq se be-ḳhabar Poor wretches! They never heard the voice of truth: ġhāfil apne phal kī shīrīnī se hotā hai shajar A tree does not know how sweet its fruit is. āshkār us ne kiyā jo zindagī kā raaz thā What he revealed was the secret of existence, hind ko lekin ḳhayālī falsafa par naaz thā But India was proud of its fancies; sham-e-haq se jo munavvar ho ye vo mahfil na thī It was not an assembly‐hall to be lit up by the lamp of truth; bārish-e-rahmat huī lekin zamīñ qābil na thī The rain of mercy fell, but the land was barren. aah shūdar ke liye hindostāñ ġham-ḳhāna hai Alas, for the shudra India is a house of sorrow, dard-e-insānī se is bastī kā dil begāna hai This land is blind to the sufferings of man. barhaman sarshār hai ab tak mai-e-pindār meñ The Brahmin is still drunk with the wine of pride, sham-e-gautam jal rahī hai mahfil-e-aġhyār meñ In the assembly‐halls of foreigners burns Gautama’s lamp. but-kada phir baad muddat ke magar raushan huā But, ages later, the house of idols was lit up again– nūr-e-ibrāhīm se aazar kā ghar raushan huā Azar’s house was lit up by Abraham! phir uThī āḳhir sadā tauhīd kī punjab se Again from the Punjab the call of monotheism arose: hind ko ik mard-e-kāmil ne jagāyā ḳhvāb se A perfect man roused India from slumber. #Iqbal's #poem hinges mainly upon four themes - #GautamaBuddha (563 BC-483 BC) and his teachings, essence of truth and #monotheism, spirit of #socialjustice and #equality, and #GuruNanak (1469-1539). Out of eight couplets in the #poem, the top six are dedicated to the first three themes; while the last two couplets are dedicated to #GuruNanak - the #founderofSikhism and the first of the #10gurus of the #faith. #Iqbal says that the #Indiannation never valued and cherished #Buddha and his teachings. Buddha called for the spiritual augmentation of one's life by shunning all kinds of obsessions with worldly desires. For Iqbal, #Buddha was a "gem" and India could not identify the worth and value of its "own gem"; for Indians were particularly tinkering with the worldly pursuits of prestige, power and property. While Buddha was ferrying them to the spiritual path of salvation, they, owing to their own ignorance, were unaware of it. Alas! #Indians were unmindful of the divine truth revealed by Buddha in the same way a tree remains oblivious to the sweetness of its own fruits. Buddha's teachings are premised upon the #FourNobleTruths that establish that the sufferings in human life can be quelled by disentanglement from worldly obsessions and desires. These are manifested in the form of quest for power, prestige and property. It was the divine truth of life revealed by #Buddha to his people. But Indians continued to follow their own caste system. Discriminating hierarchies and the social hiatus prevalent at that time is proof of the reluctance Indians showed towards the truth and divine light. #India, then was a barren land where heavenly rains, in the form of Buddha's teachings, fell but nothing came out of it. Subscribe #FolkPakistan for More #Videos.
