بچے کی دعا
لب پہ آتی ہے دعا بن کے تمنا میریزندگی شمع کی صورت ہو خدایا میری
English translation
My longing comes to my lips as supplication of mine. O God! May like the candle be the life of mine!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “بچے کی دعا” (The Child's Invocation) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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