افرنگ زدہ
English title: DAZZLED BY EUROPE
(1)
ترا وجود سراپا تجلي افرنگکہ تو وہاں کے عمارت گروں کي ہے تعمير
Your light is only Europe’s light reflected: | You are four walls her architects have built,
مگر يہ پيکر خاکي خودي سے ہے خالي!فقط نيام ہے تو، زرنگار و بے شمشير
A shell of dry mud with no tenant soul, | An empty scabbard chased with flowery gilt.
(2)
تري نگاہ ميں ثابت نہيں خدا کا وجودمري نگاہ ميں ثابت نہيں وجود ترا
To your mind God’s existence seems unproved: | Your own existence seems not proved to mine.
وجود کيا ہے، فقط جوہر خودي کي نمودکر اپني فکر کہ جوہر ہے بے نمود ترا
Life means to bring Self's merits hid to show, take heed, your Self is quite devoid of glow.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — افرنگ زدہ — 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 — Bewitched By The West — 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
- 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