ابلیس کی مجلس شوری

مست رکھو ذکر و فکر صبحگاہی میں اسےپختہ تر کر دو مزاج خانقاہی میں اسے

English translation

In prays at dawn keep him rapt and grave. Make him zealot fan of tombs and graves.
(Rapt: Raised to raptures. Grave: serious. Zealot: fanatic.)

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

Word meanings

مزاج خانقاہي: راہبانیت کا رویہ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 64 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

۶۴ / ۶۴