ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
چھا گئی آشفتہ ہو کر وسعت افلک پرجس کو نادانی سے ہم سمجھے تھے اک مشت غبار
English translation
Being restive she scanned the skies vast space, like fools we counted ‘dust’ of human race.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
مشت غبار: گرد کی مٹھی۔آشفتہ: پریشان۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 34 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 poem۳۴ / ۶۴