In Javid Nama in the course of their celestial pilgrimage Rumi and Iqbal meet the spirit of Mansoor Hallaj in the sphere of Jupiter. Here Hallaj sings the song: “Seek from your own day a fire as yet unseen To borrow fire from another is unworthy of you He who is yet unslain belongs not to our tribe." Iqbal puts Hallaj the question as to why he did not stay in the Jannat [paradise]. Hallaj replies: "The free man who knows good and evil, His spirit cannot be contained in paradise. The paradise of the Mullah is wine, houris, and pageboys, The paradise of free men is eternal voyaging. The mullah's paradise is eating and sleeping and drinking. The lover's paradise is the contemplation of Being. The mullah's resurrection is the splitting of the tomb and the trumpet's blast. For free man tumultuous love is itself the dawn of resurrection". Read more about meeting of Iqbal and Mansoor Aljaaj in Javed Nama at http://ift.tt/2x9RZ3e #allamaiqbal #sufism

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