ابلیس کی مجلس شوری

آرزو اول تو پیدا ہو نہیں سکتی کہیںہو کہیں پیدا تو مر جاتی ہے یا رہتی ہے خام

English translation

Either in his heart a wish does not lie, if wakes up ever, would be raw and die.

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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

۹ / ۶۴