(نفسيات حاکمي (اصلاحات
English title: PSYCHOLOGY OF POWER
يہ مہر ہے بے مہري صياد کا پردہآئي نہ مرے کام مري تازہ صفيري
This outward show of love so great is guise to hide the hunter's hate: New songs for rescue that I sang against their stone deaf ears didn't I bang.
رکھنے لگا مرجھائے ہوئے پھول قفس ميںشايد کہ اسيروں کو گوارا ہو اسيري
Now he drops withered flowers in our cage, as though | To reconcile his jailbirds to their jail.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — (نفسيات حاکمي (اصلاحات — 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 — Psychology Of Sovereignty — 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