Allama Iqbal's Poetry

The Rod of Moses

Content

A Declaration of War against the Present Age

Like the wind of morn imbibe the wish to blow,

DEDICATION TO NAWAB SIR HAMIDULLAH KHAN THE RULER OF BHOPAL

Islam And Mussulman

Submission to Fate

Admonition to a Philosophy Stricken Sayyid

The Earth and the Sky

The Decline of The Muslims

Knowledge and Love

Thanks Cum Complaint

Mullah of the Mosque

Knowledge and Religion

Written on the Occasion of The British Government's...

Authority and Faith

Faqr and Monarchy

Dazzled by Europe

Heart and Intellect

Fervour For Action

The Recognition of a Qalandar

The Infidel and Believer

Muhammad Ali Bab

Invocation to the Soul of Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)

The Way of Islam

Faqr and Monkery

Revelation and Freedom

Lahore and Karachi

Makkah and Geneva

To Elder of the Shrine

Preaching of Islam in the West

Negation and Affirmation

To the Amirs of Arabia

By Grace of God, Rise!

Education And Upbringing

Eastern Nations

Reformers of the East

Western Culture

The Testament of Tipu Sultan

Upbringing of Selfhood

Freedom of Thought

The Life of Selfhood

Death of the Ego

Religion and Education

Woman

The Frankish Man

Emancipation of Women

Protection of the Weaker Vessel

Education and Women

Literature and Fine Arts

Religion and Crafts

Might of Islam Mosque

The Pyramids of Egypt

Creations of Art

Dawn in the Garden

Grandeur and Grace

India’s Artists

Invention of New Meanings

Dance and Music

Politics Of The East and The West

The Voice of Karl Marx

Government Jobs

Europe and The Jews

The Psychology Of Slaves

Bolshevik Russia

To-day and To-morrow

Statesmanship of the Franks

Advice to Slaves

To the Egyptians

Satan to his Political Offspring

An Eastern League of Nations

Everlasting Monarchy

Europe and Syria

Secular Politics

Civilization’s Clutches

A Pirate and Alexander

League of Nations

Syria and Palestine

Political Leaders

Psychology Of Bondage

Slaves’ Prayer

To the Palestinian Arabs

The East and The West

Psychology of Power

Reflections Of Mihrab Gul Afghan

My hills and dales! Where can I go, leaving everything...

Tribes have been ever fighting among themselves,

Your destiny can’t be changed though prayers;

This wily heaven, the moon and the sun

These schools and games, this continuing uproar,

He who creates in this world of Becoming,

People of Rome and Syria have changed and so have those of...

The crow cavils that your wings are ill-looking,

Love is not by nature ignoble like lust;

That young man is the light of the eye of the tribe,

The lamp that once lighted your nights

Secularism and Latin script! What a meaningless controversy!

To me this world appears topsy-turvy;

Without the boldness of an outspoken man, Love is deceit...

The story of man is a witness to the truth:

It is death for the nations to be cut off from the Centre;

One man of certitude among millions

Sher Shah Suri has so well said:

True sight is not that distinguishes between red and purple,

The man of the desert of the mountains

The East

The poppy heard my song and tore her mantle;
The morning breeze is still in dearch of a garden.
Ill lodged in Ataturk or Reza Shah,
The soul of the East is still in search of a body.
This thing I am may merit chastisement;
Only—the world is still in search of a gibbet.

Translated by: V.G. Kiernan

The East

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