جبریل وابلیس
کھو دیے انکار سے تو نے مقامات بلندچشم یزداں میں فرشتوں کی رہی کیا آبرو!
English translation
Gabriel: By thy refusal thou hast lost thy place in heaven – and disgraced the angels in the eyes of the Lord.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “جبریل وابلیس” (Gabriel And Satan) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۵ / ۶