پيام مشرق

Payam-i-Mashriq (Urdu: پیامِ مشرق‎; or Message from the East; published in Persian, 1923) is a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of the Indian subcontinent. Payam-i Mashriq is an answer to West-östlicher Diwan by Goethe, the famous German poet. The Payam has been very rightly acclaimed as "a genuine attempt by an eminent Eastern poet, endowed with knowledge of Western literature and thought....to enter into a dialogue with Europe." The work includes a collection of quatrains, followed by a group of poems setting forth Iqbal’s philosophy of life in lyrical form and some poetical sketches that picture European poets, philosophers and politicians.