ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
دست فطرت نے کیا ہے جن گریبانوں کو چاکمزدکی منطق کی سوزن سے نہیں ہوتے رفو
English translation
The collars to whom the Nature has torn, the logic of Muzdak to them cant darn.
(Muzdak; who introduced a new religion, he was beheaded on the orders of King Nausherwan. He was a great orator and eloquent writer.)
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
چاک: پھاڑا۔فطرت: قدرت کا ہاتھ۔ دستمنطق: اشتراکی فلسفہ۔ مزدکيرفو: سلائی۔سوزن: سوئی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 41 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 poem۴۱ / ۶۴