مدنيت اسلام
English title: THE WAY OF ISLAM
بتاؤں تجھ کو مسلماں کي زندگي کيا ہےيہ ہے نہايت انديشہ و کمال جنوں
I would to you a Muslim's life expound, it is the height of thought and craze profound.
طلوع ہے صفت آفتاب اس کا غروب!يگانہ اور مثال زمانہ گونا گوں
Even its setting flames like a rising sun; | Single its hue, yet manifold age by age;
نہ اس ميں عصر رواں کي حيا سے بيزارينہ اس ميں عہد کہن کے فسانہ و افسوں
He is not sick of modesty like the current age, black art and myths his attention don't engage.
حقائق ابدي پر اساس ہے اس کي!يہ زندگي ہے، نہيں ہے طلسم افلاطوں
Firm on eternal verity’s bedrock standing— | Here is true life, no airy conceit of Plato!
عناصر اس کے ہيں روح القدس کا ذوق جمال!عجم کا حسن طبيعت ، عرب کا سوز دروں
Like Gabriel it owns fine taste and grace, has warmth of Arabs and mind like Persian race.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — مدنيت اسلام — 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 — Islamic Civilization — 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