ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
تو نے کیا دیکھا نہیں مغرب کا جمہوری نظامچہرہ روشن، اندروں چنگیز سے تاریک تر!
English translation
Didn’t you see western democratic track, whose face is shining but inner is black.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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.
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