نگاہ شوق
English title: EAGER GLANCE
Contents of soul this world can not conceal, for every mote has longing to reveal.
The course of life some what distinct appears, if eager looks and sight become corn peers.
The members of a subject race by dint of glance, its gloss and grace, have acquired the right and claim to rule and get renown and fame.
The glance has might to cause defeat, it has the strength, its foes to beat; we see through glance great charm and grace; it brings the lovers face to face.
Through self-same glance my craze imparts to motes and their most inner parts, the wont and mode of wandering tramps, who pay no heed to need of camps.
If fervent glance and vision keen you have not met or ever seen; your being is a source of shame on heart and sight can bring a blame.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — نگاہ شوق — 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 — Eager Glance — 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