موسيقي
English title: MUSIC
وہ نغمہ سردي خون غزل سرا کي دليلکہ جس کو سن کے ترا چہرہ تاب ناک نہيں
A song that fails to make your face glimmer and glow with joy and glee, shows that minstrel's blood is cold, his heart of heat and warmth is free.
نوا کو کرتا ہے موج نفس سے زہر آلودوہ نے نواز کہ جس کا ضمير پاک نہيں
That player on the flute who has a conscience much defiled, impure with puff of breath can make a tune replete with poison which hasn't cure.
پھرا ميں مشرق و مغرب کے لالہ زاروں ميںکسي چمن ميں گريبان لالہ چاک نہيں
I have visited the meads in East and West, where tulips parks adorn, but I have not beheld a park, where tulips have their collars torn.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — موسيقي — 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 — Music — 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