بچے کی دعا

مرے اللہ! برائی سے بچانا مجھ کونیک جو راہ ہو اس رہ پہ چلانا مجھ ک

English translation

O God! Protect me from the evil ways; show me the path leading to the good ways!
The mention of Allamah’s poetical works for children is far from complete without the poems he wrote and recited in public gatherings organized for fund-raising for the orphans. The poet decided not to include those poems in any of the books published by him. These were ‘omitted’ for the reasons best known to Allamah; possibly it was because the poems were written for a specific purpose and he had seen that being fulfilled spontaneously to his entire satisfaction.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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 poem

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