بچے کی دعا
زندگی ہو مری پروانے کی صورت یا ربعلم کی شمع سے ہو مجھ کو محبت یا رب
English translation
May my life like that of the moth be, O Lord! May I love the lamp of knowledge, O Lord!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶