''Bal-e-Jibril'' ( ur, بال جبریل; or ''Gabriel's Wing''; published in

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Allama Iqbal Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

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Introduction

Iqbal's first book of poetry in Urdu, ''

Bang-i-Dara ''The Call of the Marching Bell'' ( ur, , ''Bang-e-Dara''; published in 1924) was the first Urdu philosophical poetry book by Muhammad Iqbal, one of the greatest poet-philosophers of the sub-continent of India. Content The poems in ''The Call ...

'' (1924), was followed by ''Bal-i-Jibril'' in 1935 and ''

Zarb-i-Kalim ''Zarb-i-Kalim'' (or ''The Rod of Moses''; ur, ضربِ کلیم) is a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal in Urdu, a poet-philosopher of the Indian subcontinent. It was published in 1936 in poetry, 1936, two years before his death. Intr ...

'' in 1936. Bal-i-Jibril is the peak of Iqbal's Urdu poetry. It consists of

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, poems,

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and displays the vision and intellect necessary to foster sincerity and firm belief in the heart of the

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and turn its members into true believers. Some of the verses had been written when Iqbal visited Britain, Italy,

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, France, Spain and

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, including one of Iqbal's best known poems ''

The Mosque of Cordoba ''The Mosque of Cordoba'' ( ur, مسجد قرطبہ, translit=Masjid-e Qurtaba) is an eight-stanza Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal, written circa 1932 and published in his 1935/6 collection ''Bāl-e Jibrīl'' ('The Wing of Gabriel'). It has been ...

''. The work contains 15 ghazals addressed to God and 61 ghazals and 22 quatrains dealing the ego,

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, the

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and

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. The poet recalls the past glory of

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as he deals with contemporary political problems.

Introduction ;Odes Part-I * A blaze is raging near His Throne * If the stars are astray * Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more * A free spirit I have, and seek no praise for it * What avails love when life is so ephemeral? * If my scattered dust turns into a heart again * The world is tospy—turvy; the stars are wildly spinning * O Cup—bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee * My Lord has effaced the gulf between His world and mine * Consuming fire for thee * Dost Thou remember not my heart’s first rapture * When flowers deck themselves into ruby bloom * My power of making music * I had believed my arena was under the starry heavens * Reason is either luminous, or it seeks proofs * O Lord! This world of Thine has a winsome face ;Odes Part-II *Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world *Who sings this poignant song, blithe in spirit *The secret divine my ecstasy has taught *O myriad–coloured earth *Thou art yet region—bound *The dervish, in his freedom *The flowers are once more in radiant bloom *Muslims are born with a gift to charm, to persuade *It is love that infuses warmth into the music of life *With a heart unknown to a flame *The tongue and the heart *These Western nymphs *An illumined heart is supernal *Selfhood is daring in power, but has no pride *The leader is unworthy *Winter winds pierced me like a sharp sword *This ancient world *The way to renounce is *Reason is not far *Selfhood is an ocean boundless, fathomless *The morning breeze has whispered to me a secret *Thy vision and thy hands are chained, earth—bound *The only treasure reason has, is knowledge *Alexander’s burnished throne *Thou art not for the earth *In bondage of space *Reason has bestowed on me the eye of the wise *My plaint at last evoked *The sun, the moon, the stars *Every object has the urge *Is it a miracle, *Why should I ask wise men about my origin? *When the love of God teaches self—awareness *Explore the mysteries of’ fate, as I have done *This onrush of yearning *Let thy reason be close to nature *Alas! These men of church and mosque are known *Reason has devised again the magic of ancient days *Beyond the stars there are *The West seeks to make life a perpetual feast *Selfhood is Gabriel’s power *Does freshness of thought *As captured in a mirror *Sufis lack the fire, the passion that consumes *Intuition in the West was clever in its power *Cut the Gordian knot *Neither the power of kings *New worlds will he conquered *Arise! The bugle calls! It is time to leave! *The crescent has surpassed *Do not get engrossed In the dawning day and night *The training grounds of valour * Salman the mellifluous *Kings and crowns and armies *Stanza: The style may not he vivid and lively, still ;Quatrains *All potent wine is emptied of Thy cask *Make our hearts the seats of mercy and love *Estranging are the ways in the holy precinct *O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas *Am I bound by space, or beyond space?

*I was in the solitude of Selfhood lost *Confused is the nature of my love for Thee *Faith survives in fire, like

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*Observe the strains of' lily song: *My nature is like the fresh breeze of morn *A restless heart throb, in every atom *Thy vision is not lofty, ethereal *Neither the Muslim nor his power survives *Selfhood in the world of men is prophethood *Distracted are thy eyes in myriad ways *The beauty of mystic love is shaped in song *Where is the moving spirit of my life? *I am not a pursuer, nor a traveller *Thy bosom has breath; it does not have a heart *Pure in nature thou art, thy nature is light *Muslims have lost the passion of love they had *Conquer the world with the power of Selfhood *Dew—drops glisten on flowers that bloom in the spring *Reason is but a wayside lamp that gives *Give the young, O Lord, my passionate love for Thee *Thine is the world of birds and beasts, O Lord! *Thank Thee, O Lord, I am not without talent born *He is the essence of the worlds of space and spirit *Love is sometimes a wanderer in the woods *Love seeks sometimes the solitude of hills *Grant me the absorption of souls of the past *It was Abul Hassan who stressed the truth *This reason of mine knows not good from evil *To be God is to do a million tasks *So man is the powerful lord of land and seas! *The mystic's soul is like the morning breeze *That blood of pristine vigour is no more *The movement of days and nights is eternal, fast *Selfhood's apostate is the life of reason *Thy body knows not the secrets of thy heart *Stanza: Iqbal recited once in a garden in spring ;Poems *A Prayer * The Mosque of Cordova *Spain *

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’s Prayer *Lenin before God *Song of the Angels *Ecstasy *To Javid *Mendicancy *The Mullah and Paradise *Church and State *The Earth is God's *To a Young Man *An Advice *The Wild Flower *To the ‘Saqi’ *This Age *The Angels Bid Farewell to Adam *Adam is Received by the Spirit of the Earth *Rumi and Iqbal *Gabriel and Satan * Azan *Love *The Star's Message *To Javid *Philosophy and Religion *A Letter from Europe *At Napoleon’s Tomb *To the Punjab Peasant * Nadir Shah of Afghanistan *The Tartar's Dream *Worlds Apart *Cinema *To the Punjab Pirs *Separation *Monastery *Satan’s Petition *The Eagle *The Rebellious Disciple *Stanza: Barter not thy Selfhood for silver and gold *Stanza: The mentor exhorted his. disciples once

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