زمانہ حاضر کا انسان
English title: MODERN MAN
'عشق ناپيد و خرد ميگزدش صورت مار'عقل کو تابع فرمان نظر کر نہ سکا
Love fled, Mind stung him like a snake; he could not | Force it to vision’s will.
ڈھونڈنے والا ستاروں کي گزرگاہوں کااپنے افکار کي دنيا ميں سفر کر نہ سکا
He tracked the orbits of the stars, yet could not | Travel his own thoughts’ world;
اپني حکمت کے خم و پيچ ميں الجھا ايساآج تک فيصلہ نفع و ضرر کر نہ سکا
Entangled in the labyrinth of his science | Lost count of good and ill;
جس نے سورج کي شعاعوں کو گرفتار کيا!زندگي کي شب تاريک سحر کر نہ سکا
Took captive the sun’s rays, and yet no sunrise | On life’s thick night unfurled.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — زمانہ حاضر کا انسان — 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
- 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