جلال و جمال
مجھے سزا کے لیے بھی نہیں قبول وہ آگکہ جس کا شعلہ نہ ہو تند و سرکش و بے باک!
English translation
I would not go to hell whose fire is dull and tame to suffer for my sins I like a rearing flame.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “جلال و جمال” (Grandeur And Grace) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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