ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
کس کی نومیدی پہ حجت ہے یہ فرمان جدید؟ہے جہاد اس دور میں مرد مسلماں پر حرام!
English translation
On whose despair he formed a queer view, ‘On Muslim war is banned in this age new’.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
حجت: دلیل۔نوميدي: نا امیدی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 of 64 in “ابلیس کی مجلس شوری” (The Satan’s Advisory Council) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
Read it in the poem۱۳ / ۶۴