Read the masters, cover to cover

Books

Ghalib’s divan and Iqbal’s four Urdu books, complete and in the order the books print them. arooz has scanned every line; where it could not scan one, the line carries a small mark — an admission about arooz, never a judgement on the verse.

5 books · 868 poems · 12,987 lines

دیوانِ غالب
Diwan-e-Ghalib — Ghalib’s collected Urdu ghazals
Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869)
272 poems3,659 lines
arooz scans 82.8% of the lines
Public domain — Mirza Ghalib died in 1869
بانگِ درا
Bang-e-Dara — The Call of the Marching Bell
Allama Iqbal (1877–1938)
172 poems4,765 linesWith English translation
arooz scans 79.5% of the lines
Public domain — Allama Iqbal died in 1938
بالِ جبریل
Bal-e-Jibril — Gabriel’s Wing
Allama Iqbal (1877–1938)
179 poems2,364 linesWith English translation
arooz scans 85.4% of the lines
Public domain — Allama Iqbal died in 1938
ضربِ کلیم
Zarb-e-Kaleem — The Rod of Moses
Allama Iqbal (1877–1938)
202 poems1,664 linesWith English translation
arooz scans 86.5% of the lines
Public domain — Allama Iqbal died in 1938
ارمغانِ حجاز (اردو)
Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Urdu) — The Gift of the Hijaz — its Urdu poems
Allama Iqbal (1877–1938)
43 poems535 linesWith English translation
arooz scans 82.5% of the lines
Public domain — Allama Iqbal died in 1938

Text: Urdu Wikisource and the Iqbal Demystified dataset.