التجائے مسافر
مقام ہم سفروں سے ہوا اس قدر آگےکہ سمجھے منزل مقصود کارواں مجھ کو
English translation
May I be so far ahead of the fellow travelers that I may be regarded as the destination by the caravan!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 21 in “التجائے مسافر” (The Traveler's Request) 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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