سلطاني جاويد
English title: EVERLASTING MONARCHY
غواص تو فطرت نے بنايا ہے مجھے بھيليکن مجھے اعماق سياست سے ہے پرہيز
Though Nature has made me such that I too can dive, yet from statesmanship's core to keep aloof I strive.
فطرت کو گوارا نہيں سلطاني جاويدہر چند کہ يہ شعبدہ بازي ہے دل آويز
Whomever its legerdemain may captivate, | She sets a term to every monarchy;
فرہاد کي خارا شکني زندہ ہے اب تکباقي نہيں دنيا ميں ملوکيت پرويز
Farhad’s hill‐hewing labour still lives on, | Parvez’ conquering might is dead and gone.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — سلطاني جاويد — 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 — Eternal Kingship — 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