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 poem

۶۰ / ۶۴