Shikwa Jawab e Shikwa Complete شکوہ - جواب شکوہ

Complete Shikwa Jawab e Shikwa شکوہ- جواب شکوہ by Allama Iqbal

Shikwa (Urdu: شکوہ‎) and Jawab-e-Shikwa (Urdu: جواب شکوہ‎) are poems written by well known Urdu language poet Muhammad Iqbal, which were later published in his book Kulliat-e-Iqbal. "Shikwa" is an Urdu word which translates to "complaint" in English.

Shikwa One

Before us your world had become an anomaly,

Stones were worshiped, the trees Godly.

Shikwa Two

We fought to save your name when they we could have sat at ease,

Sometimes in barren lands, sometimes in raging seas.

Shikwa Three

“We” closed the chapter of paganism in the turning pages of time,

From the onerous shackles of slavery “we” freed your mankind.

Shikwa Four

We admit, our love for you is not as strong as it was,

We walk a different path from submission unto you.

Shikwa Five

We are not alone in error, other peoples have sinned as well.

Some amongst them modest and shy, some self obsessed.

Shikwa Six

The world no longer wants us now, new actors hold the stage,

Our world reduced to an illusion and within it we are caged.

Shikwa Seven

O Lord! The aimlessly wandering nation of Islam

faces the Ka’baonce again,

After all, the wingless nightingale cannot resist

its innate urge to fly.

Shikwa Eight

O Lord! Let the voice of this

solitary nightingale pierce hearts,

Let hearts awaken to the music

of the marching bell,

Jawaab-e-Shikwa One

I am poised to give, but there is no willing recipient,

I am eager to guide, but there is none seeking guidance.

Jawaab e Shikwa Two

Tell me who closed the chapter of paganism in the

turning pages of time?

Tell me who discarded the onerous shackles of

slavery and freed mankind?

Jawaab-e-Shikwa Three

Each one of you is drenched in the wine of lethargy,

So you are a Muslim? But just what is “Muslim” about you?

Jawaab e Shikwa Foure

Muslims today are impotent with inaction,

Blemishing the Prophet’s example with wonton

sanction.

Jawaab-e-Shikwa Five

How hard you find upon yourselves waking for the morning prayer,

Who says you have any love for me? Your sleep it is, you endear.

Jawaab e Shikwa Six

You the nation of Islam are together as one,

One Prophet, one religion, one belief.

Jawaab-e-Shikwa Seven

The loss of Iran does not signal your end,

Wine does not lend its intoxication

to the goblet in which it is served,

Jawaab e Shikwa Eight

Intellect is your armour, love, your sword,

My pious friend, your vice-regency could embrace

the whole world,