آدم کا ضمير اس کي حقيقت پہ ہے شاہد
English title: O pilgrim, who tread mystic path
O pilgrim, who tread mystic path, your goal with case you can attain man's conscience can bear out this fact that Faqr's high rank isn't hard to gain.
The steel can never make or forge a sharp and sturdy sword at all if steel is smooth and soft, like silk, such toys, true sword one can not call.
If Faqr possesses no self esteem, it means God Mighty's ire and wrath if respect for Self keeps in view, to riches great it paves the path.
The Franks have made you oblivious to Self, otherwise O Believer True, you are the bearer of happy news, and warn the sinners 'gainst their due.
اے صاحب ایمان بندے یا اے مرد مسلمان اگر تو اپنی اقدار سے واقف ہے تو تو وہ شخص ہے جو اچھے کاموں اور اعتقادات پر دوسروں کو خوشخبری دینے والا ہے کہ اس کا انجام اچھا ہو گا اوربر ے کام کا انجام اچھا نہیں ہو گا لیکن کیا کیا جائے اہل مغرب نے اپنی تہذیب ، تمدن اور معاشرت کے اثرات تم میں نفوذ کر کے تمہیں اپنے آپ سے اور اپنی قدروں سے ناواقف بنا دیا ہے ۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — آدم کا ضمير اس کي حقيقت پہ ہے شاہد — 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
- Reviewed exact Persian line-language classifications for the digital Urdu collectionsSource
- Zarb-e-Kalim English translation at allama-iqbal.com — — 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
- Zarb-e-Kalim: published Urdu rendering at Iqbal Rahber — Public published source page; pinned snapshot rahber-mixed-mehrab-15-poem.txt.Translation by Not separately identified; Published Urdu rendering from Iqbal Rahber; no translator is separately identified.Source
