SAAREY JAHAAn SE ACHCHAA HINDOOSTAAn HAMAARAA
HUM BULBULEIn HAIn USKI WO GULSITAAn HAMAARA
GURBAT MEIn HO AGAR HUM RAHTAA HAI DIL WATAN MEIn
SAMJHO HAMEIn WAHIEn BHI DIL HO JAHAAn HAMAARAA
PARBAT WO SAB SE OOnCHAA, HAMSAAYAA AASMAAn KA
WO SAnTARI HAMAARAA, WO PAASBAAn HAMAARAA
GODI MEIn KHELTI HAIn IS KI HAZAAROn NADYAAn
GULSHAN HAIn JIN KE DAM SE RASHK- E- JINAAn HAMAARAA
AYE AAB- E- ROOD - E - GAnGAA ! WO DIN HAIn YAAD TUJH KO
UTRAA TIREY KINAAREY JAB KAARWAAn HAMAARAA
MAZHAB NAHIEn SIKHAATAA AAPAS MEIn BAIR RAKHNAA
HINDI HAIn HUM , WATAN HAI HINDOOSTAAn HAMAARAA
YUNAAN - O - MISR - O - ROMAA SAB MIT GAYE JAHAAn SE
AB TAK MAGAR HAI BAAQI NAAM - O - NISHAAn HAMAARAA
KUCHH BAAT HAI KE HASTI MIT - TI NAHIEn HAMAARI
SADYOn RAHAA HAI DUSHMAN DAUR - E- ZAMAAn HAMAARAA
IQBAL! KOI MEHRAM APNAA NAHIEn JAHAAn MEIn
MAALOOM KYA KISI KO DARD- E- NIHAAn HAMAARAA
English Translation
Better than the whole wide world is our India;
we're its nightingales, it is our flower-garden.
when we're away our heart remains with our motherland;
visualize us being at the place where our heart is.
The mountain that's tallest of all , a neighbour to the sky;
it is our sentinel, it is our protector.
In it lap are playing thousands of rivers;
due to their existence our garden is the envy of the paradise.
O stream of the Ganges! Do you remember the days
when our caravan terminated at your banks?
Greece, Egypt and Rome all have vanished from the face of earth; (Their ancient civilisations)
yet our imprints are still undiminished.
There's something for our existence doesn't efface;
[though] the cycle of time has been our adversary for centuries.
O Iqbal! There's no confidant of ours in the whole world;
no one knows the grief that's shrouded in [our hearts].
HUM BULBULEIn HAIn USKI WO GULSITAAn HAMAARA
GURBAT MEIn HO AGAR HUM RAHTAA HAI DIL WATAN MEIn
SAMJHO HAMEIn WAHIEn BHI DIL HO JAHAAn HAMAARAA
PARBAT WO SAB SE OOnCHAA, HAMSAAYAA AASMAAn KA
WO SAnTARI HAMAARAA, WO PAASBAAn HAMAARAA
GODI MEIn KHELTI HAIn IS KI HAZAAROn NADYAAn
GULSHAN HAIn JIN KE DAM SE RASHK- E- JINAAn HAMAARAA
AYE AAB- E- ROOD - E - GAnGAA ! WO DIN HAIn YAAD TUJH KO
UTRAA TIREY KINAAREY JAB KAARWAAn HAMAARAA
MAZHAB NAHIEn SIKHAATAA AAPAS MEIn BAIR RAKHNAA
HINDI HAIn HUM , WATAN HAI HINDOOSTAAn HAMAARAA
YUNAAN - O - MISR - O - ROMAA SAB MIT GAYE JAHAAn SE
AB TAK MAGAR HAI BAAQI NAAM - O - NISHAAn HAMAARAA
KUCHH BAAT HAI KE HASTI MIT - TI NAHIEn HAMAARI
SADYOn RAHAA HAI DUSHMAN DAUR - E- ZAMAAn HAMAARAA
IQBAL! KOI MEHRAM APNAA NAHIEn JAHAAn MEIn
MAALOOM KYA KISI KO DARD- E- NIHAAn HAMAARAA
English Translation
Better than the whole wide world is our India;
we're its nightingales, it is our flower-garden.
when we're away our heart remains with our motherland;
visualize us being at the place where our heart is.
The mountain that's tallest of all , a neighbour to the sky;
it is our sentinel, it is our protector.
In it lap are playing thousands of rivers;
due to their existence our garden is the envy of the paradise.
O stream of the Ganges! Do you remember the days
when our caravan terminated at your banks?
Greece, Egypt and Rome all have vanished from the face of earth; (Their ancient civilisations)
yet our imprints are still undiminished.
There's something for our existence doesn't efface;
[though] the cycle of time has been our adversary for centuries.
O Iqbal! There's no confidant of ours in the whole world;
no one knows the grief that's shrouded in [our hearts].
