Here is the scene.

After love and war, and all the dialogue-baazi, Akbar orders that Anarkali must die, and she, the slave girl, happily accepts her fate, for, her Prince is alive. And Raja Maan Singh asks, ‘What is your last wish?’

‘The Emperor cannot fulfill my last wish,’ she replies.

Akbar is beside himself. He is the Emperor; he can fulfill a slave girl’s dying wish. He demands that Anarkali states her wish.

‘I want to be the Queen of Hindustan before I die.’

Akbar screams. ‘Even at death’s door, you cannot let go of your ambition.’

‘My Lord,’ Anarkali pleads, ‘please don’t call my desperation my ambition. The Prince had promised that he would make me the Queen of Hindustan. I don’t want him to break his promise. I don’t want anyone to say that the future Emperor of the World cannot even keep a promise given to a slave girl.

‘No,’ Akbar replies, ‘the future Emperor of the World will keep his promise.

Next Scene.

Akbar shows a flower laced with intoxicants, places it on a crown and places the crown on Anarkali’s head, with the instruction that after the ceremony, before the night falls, she will give the flower to the Prince so that she remains unawares when she walks to her death.

She agrees.

Then she says, ‘Shahen shah ki is behisaab bakshishon ke badle me yeh kanij Mohammed Jallaluddin Akbar ko apna khoon maaf karti hain/ For his magnanimous generosity this slave girl forgives Mohammed Jallaluddin Akbar.’