ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
تم اسے بیگانہ رکھو عالم کردار سےتا بساط زندگی میں اس کے سب مہرے ہوں مات
English translation
From a practical life keep him away; get all his pawns beaten in this nice way.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
بساط زندگي: زندگی کا کھیل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 60 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 poem۶۰ / ۶۴