ملااور بہشت
نہیں فردوس مقام جدل و قال و اقولبحث و تکرار اس اللہ کے بندے کی سرشت
English translation
For paradise isn’t place for a preacher, to meddle and meddle and mangle: And he, pious man – second nature to him is the need to dispute and to jangle his business has been to set folk by the ears.
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
Word meanings
قال و اقول: جھگڑا۔جدل: لڑائی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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