زمين و آسماں
English title: THE EARTH AND THE SKY
ممکن ہے کہ تو جس کو سمجھتا ہے بہاراںاوروں کي نگاہوں ميں وہ موسم ہو خزاں کا
Perhaps the part of year that spring you deem, in others' view destructive autumn it may seem.
ہے سلسلہ احوال کا ہر لحظہ دگرگوںاے سالک رہ! فکر نہ کر سود و زياں کا
The worldly affairs one pattern don't retain, so pilgrim wise, think not of loss and gain.
شايد کہ زميں ہے يہ کسي اور جہاں کي!تو جس کو سمجھتا ہے فلک اپنے جہاں کا
The thing you take for sky of earthly tract perhaps is soil of some other world in fact.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — زمين و آسماں — 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
- Zarb-e-Kalim English translation at allama-iqbal.com — The Earth And The Sky — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Syed Akbar Ali Shah; Translator credited in the published English source field as Syed Akbar Ali Shah; source locator group 10994.Source