What should then be done O people of the East

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Pas Chih Bayad Kard ay Aqwam-i-Sharq (or What should then be done O people of the East) was a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal in Persian, the great poet-philosopher of Indian Subcontinent. It was published in 1936.

Contents

Pas Chih Bayad Kard ay Aqwam-i-Sharq includes the mathnavi Musafir. Iqbal's Rumi, the master, utters this glad tiding "East awakes from its slumbers" "Khwab-i ghaflat". Inspiring detailed commentary on voluntary poverty and free man, followed by an exposition of the mysteries of Islamic laws and sufic perceptions is given. He laments the dissention among the Indian as well as Muslim nations. Mathnavi Musafir, is an account of a journey to Afghanistan. In the mathnavi the people of the Frontier (Pathans) are counseled to learn the "secret of Islam" and to "build up the self" within themselves. 1

Preface
  • Introduction
  • Address to the World-illuminating Sun
  • The Wisdom of Moses
  • The Wisdom of the Pharaohs
  • There is No Deity Except God
  • Faqr
  • The Free Man
  • The Essence of the Shari'ah
  • Lament on the Differences Among Indians
  • Present-day Politics
  • A Few Words to the Arab People
  • What Should Then Be Done, O People of the East?
  • To the Prophet
  • Dedication
The Traveller
  • Prelude
  • Address to People of the Frontier
  • The Traveller enters Kabul and visits the Mausoleum of the late Martyr King
  • At the Tomb of the heaven Resting Babur
  • Visiting Ghazni and offering Reverence to Hakim Sanai
  • Sanai’s Spirit Speaks from Heaven
  • At the Tomb of Sultan Mahmud
  • Supplication of Frenzied One
  • Seeing Prophet’s Garb at Qandhar.
  • The Chant
  • At the Mausoleum of Hadrat Ahmad Shah Baba, Founder of the Afghan Nation
  • Talk with the King of Islam Zahir Shah. 2

1Works. Iqbal Academy Pakistan.
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