Atish

Fire; one of the four classical elements and a symbol of ardour.

Literally: fire

Aatish is fire itself — the element, the burning that destroys and purifies, classical image of consuming passion, of the lover's inner heat, and of the trial that tests like Abraham's flame turned to a garden. It is heat as ordeal and as life. Iqbal makes fire one of his deepest emblems of khudi: the inner blaze the self must keep alive, the heat of longing and striving, the fire one carries within rather than fears without — better to burn than to lie cold and inert.