The Poems
Authority means covering the whole Iqbal — not just the famous couplets. The landmark poems, decoded with context and meaning, and the full shelf of everything he wrote.
The landmark poems
Each opens into a full page — what the poem is, when and why Iqbal wrote it, how it is built, and its most famous lines in Roman, Devanagari, and plain English.
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Everything Iqbal wrote
Asrar-e-Khudi
“Secrets of the Self” — the philosophy of Khudi in verse.
Rumuz-e-Bekhudi
“Mysteries of Selflessness” — the self within community.
Payam-e-Mashriq
“Message of the East” — his reply to Goethe.
Bang-e-Dara
“The Call of the Marching Bell” — includes Saare Jahan Se Achha, Shikwa, Jawab-e-Shikwa.
Zabur-e-Ajam
“Persian Psalms” — lyrical and intensely spiritual.
Javid Nama
“The Book of Eternity” — his masterpiece; a journey through the heavens guided by Rumi.
Bal-e-Jibril
“Gabriel’s Wing” — widely held to be his finest Urdu work.
Zarb-e-Kalim
“The Rod of Moses” — ‘a declaration of war against the present age.’
Pas Cheh Bayad Kard
“What Then Must Be Done, O Peoples of the East.”
Armaghan-e-Hijaz
“The Gift of the Hijaz” — published just after his death.
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Seven lectures — his major work of prose philosophy.