---
'id': '001_001'
'audioUrl': 'http://www.iqbal.com.pk/mp3/Zia%20Muhauddin%20Reads%20Bang%20e%20Dara/001-%20Himala.mp3'
'heading':
- 'lang': 'ur'
  'text': 'ہمالہ'
- 'lang': 'en'
  'text': 'THE HIMALAYAS'
'description':
- 'lang': 'en'
  'text': 'This poem belongs to the first period of ‘Allamah Iqbal''s poetic and intellectual evolution, which ended at the time of his departure to Europe in 1905 for higher studies. This period is considered to be the period of ‘Allamah Iqbal''s nature poetry. "Himalah" is the opening poem of Bang-i-Dara. It eulogizes the physical beauty and geographical importance of the Himalayan Range. Though mountains are equated with natural beauty all over the world, and the beauty of many mountain regions has been extolled by poets and other intellectuals alike, the Himalayas stand out as a shining star in the galaxy of the world''s mountain ranges. | The Himalayas form an extensive mountain range which stretches across the northern side of the Indian sub-continent from Kashmar to Assam, between the valleys of the Indus and Brahamaputra Rivers. It is bout 2,400 km. long and 160-240 km. wide and joins the Karakorums and the Hindu Kush Ranges. It is the highest mountain range in the world and includes some of the world''s highest peaks, viz. Everest (8,847 m.), Kanchenjunga (8,579 m.), Nanga Parbat (8,126 m.) Annapurna (8,078 m.), and Nanda Devi (7, 817 m.). | The word "Himalaya" is derived from the Sanskrit word "Himachal", meaning the "Abode of Snow". The name reflects the long range of permanently snow covered peaks, which are among the highest in the world and form a continuous wall of shimmering silver. Words cannot describe the beauty of this mountain range. It must be seen to be appreciated. "A hundred divine epochs would not suffice to describe the marvels of the Himalayas", says a Sanskrit proverb. | ‘Allamah Iqbal, a native of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent was of Kashmar origin. Kashmar , which is a part of the Himalayan Range, and in itself is beauty par excellence, must have inspired him with a special love. However, his object in writing this poem was not merely to sing the praises of this mountain tract. Being an ‘arif, the beauty of God''s countenance as reflected in His creation had become manifest to his insight. He was moved by the beauty and the grandeur of the Himalayas. To him the Himalayas were one of the innumerable master pieces of the Creative Power and Artistry of God. To him it was one of the shuhuds of God''s artistry, and a way of witnessing His Tajalla-i-Sura. This feeling bursts out in verse 3. I myself had the good fortune of living and working in the sylvan beauty of the Himalayas for about twenty years of my life and of sharing the feelings of Sa‘da, when he says: | (158) The leaves of green trees in the wise man''s perception | Every leaf is an encyclopedia of the Creator''s cognition | Modern knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the plant leaf attests to these attributes.'
'sher':
- 'id': '001_001_001'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'اے ہمالہ! اے فصيل کشور ہندوستاں | چومتا ہے تيري پيشاني کو جھک کر آسماں'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'O Himalah! O rampart of the realm of India! | Bowing down, the sky kisses your forehead'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'ae hamala! ae faseel e kishwar e hindustan | choomta ha teri paishani ko jhuk ker aasman'
- 'id': '001_001_002'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'تجھ ميں کچھ پيدا نہيں ديرينہ روزي کے نشاں | تو جواں ہے گردش شام و سحر کے درمياں'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Your condition does not show any signs of old age | You are young in the midst of day and night''s alternation'
    'notes':
    - 'phrase': 'alternation'
      'meaning': 'The alternation of the day and night is what produces time. This verse also alludes to the relative recentness of the Himalayas in terms of geological ages. This range came into existence 5-10 million years ago in the Pliocene epoch.'
      'occurrence': !!int '1'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'tujh mein kuch paida nahin derina rozee ke nishan | tu jawan hai gardish e sham o saher ke darmiyan'
- 'id': '001_001_003'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'ايک جلوہ تھا کليم طور سينا کے ليے | تو تجلي ہے سراپا چشم بينا کے ليے'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'The Kalam of tur Sana witnessed but one Effulgence | For the discerning eye you are an embodiment of Effulgence'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'aik jalwa tha kaleem e toor e sina ke liye | tu tajali hai sarapa chasm e beena ke liye'
- 'id': '001_001_004'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'امتحان ديدئہ ظاہر ميں کوہستاں ہے تو | پاسباں اپنا ہے تو ، ديوار ہندستاں ہے تو'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'To the outward eye you are a mere mountain range | In reality you are our sentinel, you are India''s rampart'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'imtihan e didah zahir mein kohistan hai tu | pasban apna hai tu, dewar e hindustan hai tu'
- 'id': '001_001_005'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'مطلع اول فلک جس کا ہو وہ ديواں ہے تو | سوئے خلوت گاہ دل دامن کش انساں ہے تو'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'You are the diwan whose opening verse is the sky | You lead Man to the solitudes of his heart''s retreat'
    'notes':
    - 'phrase': 'diwan'
      'meaning': 'Diwan- A book containing the poetical work especially ghazals , of a poet.'
      'occurrence': !!int '1'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'matla e awwal falak jis ka ho vo diwan hai tu | suay khilwat gah e dil daman kash e insan hai tu'
- 'id': '001_001_006'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'برف نے باندھي ہے دستار فضيلت تيرے سر | خندہ زن ہے جو کلاہ مہر عالم تاب پر'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Snow has endowed you with the turban of honour | Which scoffs at the crown of the world-illuminating sun'
    'notes':
    - 'phrase': 'honour'
      'meaning': 'The successful completion of education in the institutions of higher learning in the Muslim world culminates in a turban being conferred on the scholar as an insignia of his academic degree. It corresponds with the cap and academic hood in the Western world.'
      'occurrence': !!int '1'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'barf ne bandhi hai dastar e fazilat tere sar | khanda zan hai kalah e meher e aalam taab par'
- 'id': '001_001_007'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'تيري عمر رفتہ کي اک آن ہے عہد کہن | واديوں ميں ہيں تري کالي گھٹائيں خيمہ زن'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Antiquity is but a moment of your bygone age | Dark clouds are encamped in your valleys'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'teri umar e rafta ki ek aan hai ehad e kuhan | wadiyon mein hain teri kali ghataen khema zan'
- 'id': '001_001_008'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'چوٹياں تيري ثريا سے ہيں سرگرم سخن | تو زميں پر اور پہنائے فلک تيرا وطن'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Your peaks are matching with the pleiades in elegance | Though you are standing on earth your abode is sky''s expanse'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'chotiyan teri surayya se hain sargaram e sukhan | tu zameen per aur pehna e falak tera watan'
- 'id': '001_001_009'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'چشمہ دامن ترا ئنہ سےال ہے | دامن موج ہوا جس کے ليے رومال ہے'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'The stream in your flank is a fast flowing mirror | For which the breeze is working like a kerchief'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'chasma e daman tera aaeena siyyal hai | daman e mouj e hawa jis ke liye rumal hai'
- 'id': '001_001_010'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'ابر کے ہاتھوں ميں رہوار ہوا کے واسطے | تازيانہ دے ديا برق سر کہسار نے'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'The mountain top''s lightning has given a whip | In the hands of cloud for the ambling horse'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'abar ke hathon mein rahwar e hawa ke waste | taziyana de diya barq e sar e kohsar ne'
- 'id': '001_001_011'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'اے ہمالہ کوئي بازي گاہ ہے تو بھي ، جسے | دست قدرت نے بنايا ہے عناصر کے ليے'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'O Himalah! Are you like a theater stage | Which nature''s hand has made for its elements?'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'Ae hamala koi bazi gah hai tu bhi, jise | dast e qudrat ne banaya hai aanasir ke liye'
- 'id': '001_001_012'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'ہائے کيا فرط طرب ميں جھومتا جاتا ہے ابر | فيل بے زنجير کي صورت اڑا جاتا ہے ابر'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Ah! How the cloud is swaying in excessive joy | The cloud like an unchained elephant is speeding'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'haye kya firat e tarab mein jhoomta jata hai abar | feel e be zanjeer ki surat ura jata hai abar'
- 'id': '001_001_013'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'جنبش موج نسيم صبح گہوارہ بني | جھومتي ہے نشہ ہستي ميں ہر گل کي کلي'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Gentle movement of the morning zephyr is acting like a cradle | Every flower bud is swinging with intoxication of existence'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'junbish e mouj e naseem e subah gehwara bani | jhoomti hai nasha e husti mein har gul ki kali'
- 'id': '001_001_014'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'يوں زبان برگ سے گويا ہے اس کي خامشي | دست گلچيں کي جھٹک ميں نے نہيں ديکھي کبھي'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'The flower bud''s silence with the petal''s tongue is saying | "I have never experienced the jerk of the florist''s hand'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'yun zuban e berg se goya hai iss ke khamshi | dast e gulcheen ki jhatak mein ne nahin dekhi kabhi'
- 'id': '001_001_015'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'کہہ رہي ہے ميري خاموشي ہي افسانہ مرا | کنج خلوت خانہ قدرت ہے کاشانہ مرا'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Silence itself is relating the tale of mine | The corner of nature''s solitude is the abode of mine"'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'keh rahi hai meri khamoshi hi afsana mera | kunj e khalwat khana e qudrat hai kashana mera'
- 'id': '001_001_016'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'آتي ہے ندي فراز کوہ سے گاتي ہوئي | کوثر و تسنيم کي موجوں کي شرماتي ہوئي'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'The brook is melodiously descending from the high land | Putting the waves of Kawthar and Tasnam to embarrassment'
    'notes':
    - 'phrase': 'Tasnam'
      'meaning': 'Kawthar and Tasnam- They are two fountains in Paradise. The name includes their streams also.'
      'occurrence': !!int '1'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'aati hai nadi faraz e koh se gati huwi | kausar o tasneem ki moujon ko sharmati huwi'
- 'id': '001_001_017'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'آئنہ سا شاہد قدرت کو دکھلاتي ہوئي | سنگ رہ سے گاہ بچتي ، گاہ ٹکراتي ہوئي'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'As if showing the mirror to Nature''s beauty | Now evading now rowing against the rock in its way'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'aaeena sa shahid e qudrat ko dikhlati huwi | sang e reh se gah bachti gah takrati huwi'
- 'id': '001_001_018'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'چھيڑتي جا اس عراق دل نشيں کے ساز کو | اے مسافر دل سمجھتا ہے تري آواز کو'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Play in passing this orchestra of beautiful music | O wayfarer! The heart comprehends your music'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'chairti ja iss iraq e dil nasheen ke saaz ko | ae musafir dil samjhta hai teri awaz ko'
- 'id': '001_001_019'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'ليلي شب کھولتي ہے آ کے جب زلف رسا | دامن دل کھينچتي ہے آبشاروں کي صدا'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'When the night''s Lailah unfurls her long hair | The sound of water-falls allures the heart'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'laila e shab kholti hai aa ke jab zulf e rasa | daman e dil khenchti hai aabsharon ke sada'
- 'id': '001_001_020'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'وہ خموشي شام کي جس پر تکلم ہو فدا | وہ درختوں پر تفکر کا سماں چھايا ہوا'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'That silence of the night whose beauty surpasses speech | That state of silent meditation overshadowing the trees'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'vo khamoshi sham ki jis per takalum ho fida | vo darkhton per tafakkur ka saman chaya huwa'
- 'id': '001_001_021'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'کانپتا پھرتا ہے کيا رنگ شفق کہسار پر | خوشنما لگتا ہے يہ غازہ ترے رخسار پر'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'That dusk''s beauty which shivers along the mountain range | Very beautiful looks this rouge on your cheeks'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'kanpta phirta hai kya rang e shafaq kohsar per | khushnuma lagta hai ye ghazah tere rukhsar per'
- 'id': '001_001_022'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'اے ہمالہ! داستاں اس وقت کي کوئي سنا | مسکن آبائے انساں جب بنا دامن ترا'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'O Himalah! Do relate to us some stories of the time | When your valleys became abode of Man''s ancestors'
    'notes':
    - 'phrase': 'ancestors'
      'meaning': 'This refers to the antiquity of the Himalayas in archaeological times. Kashmir was an inhabited area at the time of the Indus Valley civilization in the third millennium B.C. It also alludes to the tradition that the Hindu sages wrote the Vedas in the Himalayas under the inspiration of its beauty.'
      'occurrence': !!int '1'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'ae hamala! dastan uss waqt ki koi suna | maskan e aabaay insan jab bana daman tera'
- 'id': '001_001_023'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'کچھ بتا اس سيدھي سادي زندگي کا ماجرا | داغ جس پر غازئہ رنگ تکلف کا نہ تھا'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'Relate something of the life without sophistication | Which had not been stained by the rouge of sophistication'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'kuch bata uss seedhi sadi zindagi ka majra | dagh jis par ghaza rang e takalluf ka na tha'
- 'id': '001_001_024'
  'meta': !!bool 'false'
  'sherContent':
  - 'lang': 'ur'
    'text': 'ہاں دکھا دے اے تصور پھر وہ صبح و شام تو | دوڑ پيچھے کي طرف اے گردش ايام تو'
  - 'lang': 'en'
    'text': 'O Imagination! Bring back that period | O Vicissitudes of Time speed backwards'
    'notes':
    - 'phrase': 'backwards'
      'meaning': 'This is an outpouring of the poet''s heart in which he yearns for the revival of the Islamic civilization, of which the Asian civilization was a precursor and a part.'
      'occurrence': !!int '1'
  - 'lang': 'ro'
    'text': 'Haan dikha de ae tasawwar phir woh subah o sham tu | dorh piche ki taraf ae ghardish e ayyam tu'