ابلیس کی عرضداشت

جمہور کے ابلیس ہیں ارباب سیاستباقی نہیں اب میری ضرورت تہ افلاک

English translation

For fiends its rulers serve the populace: Beneath the heavens is no more need of me!

Translated by V.G. Kiernan

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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.

Read it in the poem

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