ملااور بہشت
English title: THE MULLAH AND PARADISE
ميں بھي حاضر تھا وہاں ، ضبط سخن کر نہ سکاحق سے جب حضرت ملا کو ملا حکم بہشت
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.
عرض کي ميں نے ، الہي! مري تقصير معافخوش نہ آئيں گے اسے حور و شراب و لب کشت
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!
نہيں فردوس مقام جدل و قال و اقولبحث و تکرار اس اللہ کے بندے کي سرشت
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.
ہے بد آموزي اقوام و ملل کام اس کا!اور جنت ميں نہ مسجد ، نہ کليسا ، نہ کنشت
And get nations and sects in a tangle: Up there in the sky is no Mosque and no Church and no Temple – with whom will he wrangle?
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bal-e-Jibril — ملااور بہشت — 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 — Heaven And The Priest — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by V.G. Kiernan; English Translation by: V.G. KiernanSource