ملااور بہشت

عرض کی میں نے، الہی! مری تقصیر معافخوش نہ آئیں گے اسے حور و شراب و لب کشت

English translation

I humbly addressed the Almighty: O Lord, excuse this presumption of mine: But he’ll never relish the virgins of heaven, the garden’s green borders, the wine!

Translated by V.G. Kiernan

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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.

Read it in the poem

۲ / ۴