تقدير (ابليس و يزداں)
English title: FATE (SATAN AND GOD)
ابليس
O Lord of worlds, against Adam, no grudge or spite I did e'er bear. Alas! He is a captive still of late and soon, far off and near.
And what presumption could refuse to You Obedience? | If I would not kneel to him, The cause was Your own fore‐ordaining will.
يزداں
کب کھلا تجھ پر يہ راز، انکار سے پہلے کہ بعد؟
When did that mystery dawn on you? Before, Or after your sedition?
ابليس
!بعد ! اے تيري تجلي سے کمالات وجود
After, oh brightness! Whence all the glory of all being flows.
يزداں (فرشتوں کي طرف ديکھ کر)
His low grovelling bent of mind has taught the wretch to argue and contend; he says it was pre-ordained, to God he would not bow or bend.
gives his freedom Necessity’s base title;— | wretch! His own Consuming fire he calls a wreath of smoke.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — تقدير (ابليس و يزداں) — 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 — Fate: (Satan And God) — 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