ملااور بہشت

میں بھی حاضر تھا وہاں، ضبط سخن کر نہ سکاحق سے جب حضرت ملا کو ملا حکم بہشت

English translation

Being present there, my impetuous tongue, to silence I could not resign; when an order from God of admission on high, came the way of that reverend divine.

Translated by V.G. Kiernan

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 4 in “⁨ملااور بہشت⁩” (Heaven And The Priest) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

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