Gabriel’s Wing

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Gabriel’s Wing is the English title of "Bal-e-Jibril," a renowned Urdu poetry collection by the philosopher-poet Muhammad Iqbal that explores spiritual awakening, selfhood, and Islamic revival.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
addressesAudience Muslim youth
intellectuals of the Muslim world
associatedWithFigure Muhammad Iqbal as poet-philosopher
author Muhammad Iqbal
centralConcept moral and spiritual reform
revival of the Muslim ummah
self-realization
containsMotif angelic inspiration
journey of the soul
struggle and action (jihad in a broad sense)
countryOfOrigin British India
exploresTheme Islamic revival
khudi (selfhood)
selfhood
spiritual awakening
followsWork Bang-e-Dara
genre poetry
hasCriticalReception widely studied in South Asian literary criticism
hasEnglishTitle Gabriel’s Wing
hasForm ghazal
nazm
philosophical verse
hasReligiousDimension Islamic ethical teaching
Qur’anic imagery
hasTitleCharacter Gabriel
hasTransliteration Bal-e-Jibril
influencedBy Islamic mysticism
linked to: Sufism

Persian poetry tradition
Qur’an
linked to: Quran

Sufism
language Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
literaryMovement Islamic modernism
Urdu philosophical poetry
literarySignificance major work of 20th-century Urdu poetry
originalTitle Bal-e-Jibril
partOfAuthorOeuvre Iqbal’s Urdu poetry collections
philosophicalOrientation Iqbal’s philosophy of khudi
Islamic reconstruction of religious thought
relatedWork Asrar-e-Khudi
Rumuz-e-Bekhudi
Zarb-e-Kalim
religiousContext Islam
script Perso-Arabic script (Urdu)
usedIn Urdu literature curricula
courses on Iqbal’s thought

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Bal-e-Jibril alsoKnownAs Gabriel’s Wing
Gabriel’s Wing hasEnglishTitle Gabriel’s Wing