اقوام مشرق
English title: EASTERN NATIONS
نظر آتے نہيں بے پردہ حقائق ان کوآنکھ جن کي ہوئي محکومي و تقليد سے کور
Those men, who lose their eyes through bondage and sheepish bent, can't see the facts of life though veil from truths be rent.
زندہ کر سکتي ہے ايران و عرب کو کيونکر!يہ فرنگي مدنےت کہ جو ہے خود لب گور
Can Persia or Arabia suck new life | From Europe’s culture, itself at the grave’s edge?
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — اقوام مشرق — 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 — Nations of the East — 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