مشرق
English title: THE EAST
مري نوا سے گريبان لالہ چاک ہوانسيم صبح ، چمن کي تلاش ميں ہے ابھي
By strains I sing at early morn, the vest of tulip has been torn. Breeze has been roaming since the dark, but has not found a single park.
نہ مصطفي نہ رضا شاہ ميں نمود اس کيکہ روح شرق بدن کي تلاش ميں ہے ابھي
Ill lodged in Ataturk or Reza Shah, | The soul of the East is still in search of a body.
مري خودي بھي سزا کي ہے مستحق ليکنزمانہ دارو رسن کي تلاش ميں ہے ابھي
This thing I am may merit chastisement; | Only—the world is still in search of a gibbet.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — مشرق — 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 — The East — 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