Poem: Rukhsat Ae Bazm-e-Jahan
(Farewell O Worldʹs Congregation!)
Book: Bang-e-Dra 32
By: Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal
This beautiful poem is written by Dr.Allama Muhammad Iqbal. This poem is taken from Bang-e-Dara (no, 32). In this poem Iqbal firstly tells us about the problem and challenging condition of humanity in this world, and how man is moving toward materialism and turning away from Allah. He also describes the condition of materialistic human being that they believed that these lightning and happiness will last forever and they will never end. Also mentions his internal feelings that now he is getting fed up from this world.
• In this poem Iqbal share with us his internal condition that I feel restless from this mortal world. Now I felt comfort in isolation and feel irritate from the chaos and turmoil of the world. He mentions about this feeling in many other poems as well. The world that is seemed too inhabited but if we look at it carefully is a deserted place.
• In second couplet Iqbal said I’m starting to get so bored and depressed and i don’t like any kind of congregation. Everywhere there is noise, chaos, I feel hesitate to go there in too inhabited areas. On the contrary, the fact is that I have never been able to go any kind of event. And I think it’s good for me to avoid such events.
• In third couplet Iqbal said that the world is imprisoned in the offices of ministers and courts. This means that these people are imprisoned in the vicinity of materialism. Here Iqbal describes his condition that I am free from such imprisonment. Whether it could be ruler’s time imprisonment or it could be to admire them. They say that myself wants freedom in every respect I can’t imprison my life for the sake of any valuable thing.
• In four distich Iqbal said no doubt this world is place of hustle bustle and lighting. The lighting and turmoil of the world draw people to themselves. But for Iqbal, these are very temporary things. If we approach these pleasures and the light, then it is assumed that they are all temporary and it is only a blur of eyes or bubble on water. This happiness carries a sense of strangeness for me so it’s better that I keep distance from them.
• In fifth couplet Iqbal said that I have spent a lot of time with people who are trying to highlight themselves. They want to be admired forever and to be prominent at concerts. And I’ve been wandering all the time, as high waves of the ocean collide with each other’s like this creates a stir everywhere. How they could feel happiness by doing this.
• In sixth verses of the poem Iqbal tell us I spend a long passage of my life with the company of those luxurious people which always looks happy in congregations. But Iqbal never understood the inner turmoil of what was the problem with him. He says after a time I also uncovered the secret that I was actually looking for the light. That light which give me a chance to know about the God. But on that time wherever I was, there was darkness everywhere.
• In seventh stanza Iqbal beautifully describe that I had been standing for a long passage of my life among thrones to see the flowers, but nothing came into my hand. He also alludes toward the incident of Hazrat Yousaf (a.s) and said that in a world full of thrones I could not find the joseph from whom I was looking for. Its means that they could not find what they had been searching for.
• In eighth distich Iqbal describes with sorrow that my eyes have been tired of crying for light. My eyes are looking for a scene that can calm my heart. I have encountered numerous storms in this world, now I want the shore so I can calm down. Here storms refer to the difficulties and turmoil of the world.
• In last distich of the first of the poem Iqbal said that if I took a garden as an example, so I am leaving the beautiful color of the garden as like one colorful flower leave with its fragrance. Here Iqbal said with hidden words, that O world I am going to leave you and going to my world that I was looking for. Here the world’s mean that isolation which Iqbal intensely looking for a long time. Here started the 2nd part of the poem in which Iqbal left the mortal world and go to own world, and describes its beauty and pleasure.
• In the first couplet of 2nd part Iqbal describe about his own world said I have built a house in the middle of the mountains where me and my loneliness live alone. They said here I got quietness which gave me so pleasure, that pleasure I could never found before in any type of music concert or in congregation.
Description by: Luice Frank
20 сен 2024
