بچے کی دعا
ہو مرا کام غریبوں کی حمایت کرنادردمندوں سے ضعیفوں سے محبت کرنا
English translation
May supportive of the poor my life's way be! May loving the old, the suffering my way be!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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 poem۵ / ۶