Taraana-e-Hind (With English Translation)

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].

This is the National Song of India.