ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
اس سے بڑھ کر اور کیا ہوگا طبیعت کا فسادتوڑ دی بندوں نے آقاوں کے خیموں کی طناب!
English translation
No worst cancer looks than his nature’s bent, that the slaves have toppled the master’s tent.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
طناب: رسی۔بندوں: غلاموں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 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 poem۲۳ / ۶۴