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Urdu to English: IBLEES KI MAJLISEY SHURA (The Advisory Council of the Devil) General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Urdu The source text poem is in Urdu, and is not visible when pasted. Anyhow, it is a famous poem, entitled IBLEES KI MAJLISEY SHURA, written by Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan. The sample translation in the other column comprises first two sections of the poem. The translation is a fruit of meticulous endeavor, and I claim it to be of a high quality.
Translation - English The Advisory Council of the Devil
The Devil
This old game of elements , this world of articles,
Murder of the desires of that world’s residents.
Bent on destroying it is the One, the Omnipotent,
Who once had named it the world of ‘kaaf’ and ‘noon’.
I made the English dream of autocracy,
I broke the spell of mosque, temple, and church.
I taught the helpless the beguiling lesson of ‘fate’ ,
I conferred upon the wealthy the madness of capitalism.
Who can extinguish the fire that is lit by him,
In whose high flames is the ardency of the Devil?
Whose boughs, by virtue of our watering them, are sky-kissing,
Who can dare take hold of that old tree of ours?
The First Adviser
Without doubt, unflinching is this devilish system,
Which aggravated the masses’ nature of servitude .
From the day first are destined the poor folk to bow their heads,
Whose nature’s demand it is to offer a prayer devoid of upstanding .
Never can take birth the desire in the first instance,
But dies right away, or remains immature, if it does take birth.
This, today, is the fruit of our indefatigable struggle,
That servants of autocracy are both ‘soofi’ and ‘mullah’ .
This opium befitted the disposition of the Eastern,
Not less sweet, otherwise, was the recitation of Quran than ‘qawali’.
What matters if still alive is the practice of ‘tawaf’ and ‘haj’,
When rusted has been the unsheathed sword of a Muslim?
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PhD - University of Leeds, UK
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As a brief introduction, I am a native speaker of Urdu and Pakistani Punjabi and hold degrees of Ph.D. Translation Studies and MPhil Linguistics. I have around 10 years of experience providing high-quality language services, such as
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