ابلیس کی عرضداشت
جاں لاغر و تن فربہ و ملبوس بدن زیبدل نزع کی حالت میں، خرد پختہ و چالاک
English translation
Meager-souled, plump of flesh, in fine clothes trussed, brain ripe and subtle, heart not far from dead.
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “ابلیس کی عرضداشت” (Satan's Petition) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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