مرزا بيدل
English title: MIRZA BEDIL
Is it a fact or delusion mere which has been caused by erring eye do earth, hills, deserts vast exist, and is there any azure sky?
Some aver that they do exist, whereas some call their being untrue O God, it is very hard to find to truth or falsehood certain clue.
Bedil resolved this tangled knot with so much skill and manner nice, though sages and wise men or the past to undo this skein had no device.
‘If heart of man were vast enough, this mead would have retained no trace some wine has overflowed the brim, because the flask had narrow space.’
اگر دل میں زیادہ سے زیادہ کشادگی اور وسعت ہوتی تو اس باغ کا کوئی نشان نہ ملتا۔ مصیبت یہ ہے کہ دل میں کافی وسعت اور کشادگی موجود نہ تھی۔ (اس کی مثال یوں سمجھو کہ صراحی تنگ تھی جب اس میں شراب ڈالی گئی تو رنگ نکل کر باہر بیٹھ گیا۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — مرزا بيدل — 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 — Mirza Bedil — 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/04/26.json.Translation by Not separately identified; The published Urdu field does not separately identify its translator. No English translator credit is reused.Source
