ايک فلسفہ زدہ سيد زادے کے نام
English title: ADMONITION TO A PHILOSOPHY STRICKEN SAYYID
If your Self had not been debased and lost, Bergson, his spell on you would not have cast.
Hegel's shell is quite devoid of gem that gleams, his Talisman merely web of fancy seems.
Man's need is how this earthly life to brace, he yearns that Self may last 'yond Time and Space.
To have a life steadfast is his desire, he seeks some rules to guide his life entire.
The source, that gloom dispels, spreads light around, is Worship Call at morn with clarion sound.
I am by breed a pure and trite Somnati, ancestors mine were both Lati and Manati.
You hail from Hashemite Prophet's race, my origin from Brahmans I have to trace.
Philosophy is my body's essential part; it is rooted deep in fibres of my heart.
lqbal devoid of skill and craft though be, through every vein of thought can fully see.
The frenzy in your breast is shorn of glow, this heart illuming point you ought to know.
Intellect leads a man from God astray; philosophy from grasping facts keeps away.
Dumb strains produced by calm and serious, thought, slay zeal for active life and achieve not aught.
True faith and creed give strength to earthly Abraham and Prophets' Seal guide to face its strife.
Ali's son, you are deceived by Avicenna's thought, give ears to what the Holy Prophet taught.
تمام سہارے چھوڑ کر دل کو محمد (صلعم) کے ارشادات سے وابستہ کر دینا چاہیے، اے علی (رضی الّہ) کی اولاد بو علی جیسے فلسفہ کے پیچھے نہ چلنا چاہیے۔
You can not see the path you have to tread, so choose a guide from tribe of Koraish instead.
جب تجھے راستہ دیکھنے والی آنکھ میسّر نہیں تو بخاری کے بجائے قریشی کو اپنا راہنما بنا لینا ہی اچھا ہے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — ايک فلسفہ زدہ سيد زادے کے نام — 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: Zarb-e-Kalim — 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
- Zarb-e-Kalim English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Admonition To A Philosophy Stricken Sayyad — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Syed Akbar Ali Shah; English Translation by: Syed Akbar Ali ShahSource
- Zarb-e-Kalim: published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/zarb-e-kaleem/01/05.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source
