فرشتوں کاگيت
English title: SONG OF THE ANGELS
Reason is unbridled yet, love is still a dream; thy work remains unfinished still, O Craftsman of Eternity!
The days and nights revolve, unfolding evils new; the rulers of body and soul are ruthless tyrants, all.
The rich are drunk with wealth; the pious are drunk with piety; the homeless wander in the streets, the lords of palaces are Olympian.
Learning, religion, art and science, are all slaves of greed; thy love that solves all riddles, has yet to shower its blessings.
The essence of Life is Love, the essence of Love is the self; Alas! This cutting sword as yet rests in the sheath!
فرمان خدا - فرشتوں سے
GOD’s COMMAND (to His angels) Rise, and from their slumber wake the poor ones of My world shake the walls and windows of the mansions of the great!
Kindle with the fire of faith the slow blood of the slaves | Make the fearful sparrow bold to meet the falcon's hate!
Close the hour approaches of the kingdom of the poor— | Every imprint of the past find and annihilate!
Find the field whose harvest is no peasant's daily bread— | Garner in the furnace every ripening ear of wheat!
Banish from the house of God the mumbling priest whose prayers like a veil creation from Creator separate!
God by mm's prostrations, by man's vows are idols cheated: Quench at once in My shrine and their fane the sacred light!
خدا کو سجدے اور بتوں کا طواف۔
Rear for me another temple, build its walls with mud— | Wearied of their columned marbles, sickened is My sight!
All their fine new world a workshop filled with brittle glass- | Go! My poet of the East to madness dedicate.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — فرشتوں کاگيت — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Bal-e-Jibril — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Song of the Angels — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Naim Siddiqui; English Translation by: Naim SiddiquiSource
- Bal-e-Jibril: published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/bal-e-jibreel/04/08.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source
- Poems from Iqbal — First edition, 1955Translation by V. G. Kiernan; Published English translations attributed to V. G. Kiernan; the 231 previously imported exact passages remain, with one additional independently reviewed final standalone line at PDF page 100. Each new locator names its exact passage scope.Source