Poems from Iqbal: Renderings in English Verse with Comparative Urdu Text
Allama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the quality of his verse and for the influence exercised by his ideas. Since his death in 1938, his fame has continued to grow and has reached the West through a number of English studies and translations. Most of the latter have been his philosophical poetry in Persian. This volume contains a rendering in English of over a hundred poems chosen from the...
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the quality of his verse and for the influence exercised by his ideas. Since his death in 1938, his fame has continued to grow and has reached the West through a number of English studies and translations. Most of the latter have been his philosophical poetry in Persian. This volume contains a rendering in English of over a hundred poems chosen from the four collections of Iqbal's poetry written in Urdu, which include religious, lyrical, satirical and other themes. the English versions are accompained by the original text.
1A withered rose22New moon43Man and nature64Virtue and vice105The moon146Morning star167A new altar208On the bank of the Ravi229Beauty's essence2410Moon and stars2611One evening2812Solitude3013Sicily3214Two planets3615On a flower-offering3816Before the prophet's throne4017I and you4218Khizar, the guide4419 to 35Seventeen Ghazals6036Six Ruba'iyat9837The mosque of Cordoba10038Lenin before God11439God's command to his angels11840Heaven and the priest12041The earth is God's12242Counsel12443Poppy of the wilderness12644To the Saqi12845Time13646Gabriel and Satan14047The prayer-call14448Sestet14649Love14850At Napoleon's tomb15051To the Punjab peasant15252Nadir Shah of Afghanistan15453The tartar's dream15654Cinema15855To the Punjab pirs16056Separation16257Satan's petition16458The hawk16659Disciples in revolt16860Reason and love17261Jehad17462Dazzled by Europe17663Islam in India17864Fate18065The way of Islam18266Preaching of Islam in the west18467Modern man18668Eastern nations18869A student18870The schools19071A question19072To my poem19273Paris mosque19274To the artists19475Dawn in the garden19676Persian poetry19877India's artists20078Dancing20079The voice of Karl Marx20280Revolution20281Flattery20482Government jobs20483Europe and the Jews20684Slave mentality20685Bolshevik Russia20886Today and tomorrow20887The east20888European politics21089To the Egyptians21090Abyssinia21291Satan to his political offspring21492An eastern League of Nations21693Everlasting monarchy21694Europe and Syria21695Mussolini21896Reproach22097Civilization's clutches22098League of Nations22299Syria and Palestine222100Political leaders222101Slaves' prayers224102East and west226103Psychology of power226104Satan's parliament230105An old Baluchi to his son246106From death to resurrection248107A deposed monarch254108Litany of the damned254109Three Ruba'iyat256110Fragments from Kashmir258111Song of the stars266112God and man270113Solitude272114Houri and poet276115Life and strife278116Slavery278117Quatrain280118Epilogue280
