ابلیس کی مجلس شوری
ہے وہی شعر و تصوف اس کے حق میں خوب ترجو چھپا دے اس کی آنکھوں سے تماشائے حیات
English translation
The verse and mysticism suits for his ‘deen’; which hides from his eyes life’s vital scene.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 62 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.
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