پيرس کي مسجد
English title: PARIS MOSQUE
مري نگاہ کمال ہنر کو کيا ديکھےکہ حق سے يہ حرم مغربي ہے بيگانہ
No height of art and craft I see, of truth this western mosque is free.
حرم نہيں ہے ، فرنگي کرشمہ بازوں نےتن حرم ميں چھپا دي ہے روح بت خانہ
It knows nothing of God, Mosque?—the Frankish illusionists | Have smuggled into the carcass Of a shrine, an idol‐hall’s soul!
يہ بت کدہ انھي غارت گروں کي ہے تعميردمشق ہاتھ سے جن کے ہوا ہے ويرانہ
And who built this palace of idols? | The same robbers whose hands have turned Damascus into a desert.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — پيرس کي مسجد — 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 — Paris Mosque — 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