ايک سوال
English title: A QUESTION
کوئي پوچھے حکيم يورپ سےہند و يوناں ہيں جس کے حلقہ بگوش
Ask the wise men of Europe, who have hung | Their ring in the nose of Greece and Hindostan:
کيا يہي ہے معاشرت کا کمال!مرد بے کار و زن تہي آغوش
Is this their civilization’s highest rung— | A childless woman and a jobless man?
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — ايک سوال — 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