مصلحين مشرق
English title: REFORMERS OF THE EAST
ميں ہوں نوميد تيرے ساقيان سامري فن سےکہ بزم خاوراں ميں لے کے آئے ساتگيں خالي
نئي بجلي کہاں ان بادلوں کے جيب و دامن ميں!پراني بجليوں سے بھي ہے جن کي آستيں خالي
Your vintners have despaired me much, like Samri, they can cast a spell: With empty bowls to East have conic; what they would do is hard to tell. No lighting new can ever flash in tap or clouds that float in sky: Of lightning old, their sleeves are void; how can they gain a Status high?
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — مصلحين 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 — Reformers 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