Zarb-i-Kalim (The Rod of Moses)

Zarb-i-Kalim is a book of philosophical poetry written in Urdu by Muhammad Iqbal, a poet and thinker from what is now Pakistan. It was published in 1936, two years before the author's death in 1938. It is his third collection of poetry and is often regarded as his political manifesto. It carries the subtitle "A Declaration of War Against the Present Times."

In the work, Iqbal argues that the ills of modern civilisation stem from its materialism, its godlessness and its injustice, a civilisation that feeds on the subjugation and exploitation of weaker nations, especially the Muslims of India.

The first edition appeared in 1935. Various editions were later published in Pakistan and India, and the most authoritative is that of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan, published in Lahore in 2002.