وجود
English title: BEING
اے کہ ہے زير فلک مثل شرر تيري نمود!کون سمجھائے تجھے کيا ہيں مقامات وجود
O man, your stay and show beneath the sky, is short and brief, like spark, that parts from flame: Who can make man detect this fact so clear that teing of man enjoys high rank and name?
گر ہنر ميں نہيں تعمير خودي کا جوہر!وائے صورت گري و شاعري و ناے و سرود
If craftsmanship of man is quite devoid of gift and tact the Self to form and frame. Alas! Such art and music of the flute are naught but source of much disgrace and shame.
مکتب و مے کدہ جز درس نبودن ندہندبودن آموز کہ ہم باشي و ہم خواہي بود
Schools and taverns can no morals teach save the fact that you do not exist, learn 'to be' for you too are a fact, besides, your Ego thus shall long subsist.
درسگاہوں اور مے خانوں میں محض فنا کا سبق دیا جاتا ہے؛ تجھے چاہیے کہ بقا کی تعلیم حاصل کرے تاکہ تو دنیا میں بھی زندگی کا بلند مقام حاصل کر سکے اور مرنے کے بعد بھی ہمیشہ کے لیے زندہ رہے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — وجود — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Zarb-e-Kalim English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Being — 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
- Zarb-e-Kalim: published Urdu field at allama-iqbal.com — Public poem data pinned to allama-iqbal.com repository commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056; source path allama-iqbal-com-content/zarb-e-kaleem/04/15.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source
