خوشامد
English title: FLATTERY
ميں کار جہاں سے نہيں آگاہ ، وليکنارباب نظر سے نہيں پوشيدہ کوئي راز
The world and its affairs to me are quite unknown; these secrets are not bid from those who insight own.
کر تو بھي حکومت کے وزيروں کي خوشامددستور نيا ، اور نئے دور کا آغاز
Swim with the tide, flatter Their Excellencies | Of the new dispensation that commences!
معلوم نہيں ، ہے يہ خوشامد کہ حقيقتکہہ دے کوئي الو کو اگر 'رات کا شہباز
If a man calls the owl, ‘The kingly hawk of night’; too hard to find this fact wh'r he tells wrong or right.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — خوشامد — 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 — Flattery — 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
- Poems from Iqbal — First edition, 1955Translation by V. G. Kiernan; Published English translations attributed to V. G. Kiernan; the 231 previously imported exact passages remain, with one additional independently reviewed final standalone line at PDF page 100. Each new locator names its exact passage scope.Source