جبريل وابليس
English title: GABRIEL AND SATAN
جبريل
ہمدم ديرينہ! کيسا ہے جہان رنگ و بو؟
Gabriel: My old friend, how is the world of sight and sound?
ابليس
سوز و ساز و درد و داغ و جستجوے و آرزو
Satan: Pain and passion; quest and yearning.
جبريل
Gabriel: Thou never talkest of anything but the heavens. Is there no cure for thy constant pain?
ابليس
Satan: Thou knowest not, alas, the secret of my pain! The loss I have suffered has increased my passion more. How silent is this world; desolate and wild! I cannot ever live here; I cannot! For one whose despair throbs in the heart of the universe, what is better-despair, or hope?
جبريل
Gabriel: By thy refusal thou hast lost thy place in heaven – and disgraced the angels in the eyes of the Lord.
ابليس
Satan: My courage gave a speck of dust the impulse to grow; my cunning is the fabric of man’s intellect. Thou watchest the war of good and evil, safely ashore, and who is battered by the storm-thou or I? Both Khizr and Ilyas feel helpless: The storms I have stirred up rage in oceans, rivers, and streams. Ask God, if thou hast the time to ask: Whose blood gave colour to Adam’s inglorious tale? I am a thorn in the Almighty’s mighty heart, and thou but mumblest His praise day and night.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — جبريل وابليس — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Bal-e-Jibril — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- Bal-e-Jibril English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Gabriel And Satan — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Naim Siddiqui; English Translation by: Naim SiddiquiSource
