خاقاني
English title: KHAQANI
'وہ صاحب 'تحفہ العراقينارباب نظر کا قرہ العين
Khaqani, the author of Tuhfa-tul-araqain, is dear to those who truths can scan.
ہے پردہ شگاف اس کا ادراکپردے ہيں تمام چاک در چاک
His wisdom is so sharp and keen. From truths he can remove the screen.
خاموش ہے عالم معاني!کہتا نہيں حرف 'لن تراني'
With world or meanings he is free they dare not say ‘you can not see’.
پوچھ اس سے يہ خاک داں ہے کيا چيزہنگامہ اين و آں ہے کيا چيز
Ask him what does this world imply, where does the cause or tumults lie?
وہ محرم عالم مکافاتاک بات ميں کہہ گيا ہے سو بات
He knows the world of requital well, his maxims with much wisdom swell:
خود بوے چنيں جہاں تواں برد ''''!کابليس بماند و بوالبشر مرد
Opinion 'bout world you can derive, Adam dead, Satan still alive’.
ایسے جہان کی بو کا تو اسی سے اندازہ ہو سکتا ہے ، یعنی اس کی حقیقت تو یہیں سے معلوم ہو جاتی ہے کہ ابلیس باقی ہے اور انسان کا باپ (آدم علیہ) فوت ہو گیا ہے۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — خاقاني — 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 — Khaqani — 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/04/23.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source