The state of Barzakh By Allama Iqbal Definition of Barzakh What is it, This resurrection day? Of what present is it the future? Oh my ancie...
The state of Barzakh
By Allama Iqbal
Definition of Barzakh
What is it, This resurrection day? Of what present is it the future?
Oh my ancient sleeping chamber! What is resurrection day?
Oh corpse of a hundred years! don't you know?
That every death implies a call for resurrection!
A death that implies resurrection
Such a death does not entrap me!
It is true that I have been dead for a hundred years,
But I am not tired of this dark chamber in the earth
The soul should once again ride the poor body
If this is resurrection, then I am not a taker!
Eternal death is not for snakes and scorpions, or for birds and beasts of prey,
Eternal death is lot of slave nations alone
Even Israfil's trumpet cannot bring back to life those
Whose body, when they lived, had no souls
To spring back to life after death -only the free can do that
Even though all living beings are headed into the arms of grave
Oh, you vicious creature in the world, you were a slave
I had failed to understand why my soil is as hot a fire,
Your corpse makes my darkness even darker
It rips the earth's veil of honor
Beware, beware a hundred times a slave's corpse!
Oh Israfil! Oh Lord of the universe! Oh soul that is chaste and pure!
Resurrection upsets the order of universe
But it is this commotion that reveal the secret of existence
An earthquake makes mountains fly like clouds,
But it also starts new springs flowing in the valleys
Total destruction must come before any recreation
For in this way the problems of existence are resolved
Oh, this eternal death!, Oh, this struggle that marks life!
Will this conflict in the world ever end?
Reason cannot free itself from the idols,
The commoner and the elite- all are slaves of Lat and Manat
That such a world should continue to exist, Is more then heart and eye can bear
Why does man's night does not turn into Dawn?
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