التجائے مسافر

مری زبان قلم سے کسی کا دل نہ دکھےکسی سے شکوہ نہ ہو زیر آسماں مجھ کو

English translation

May my pen not hurt anybody’s feelings! May I have complaint against none under the sun!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 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.

Read it in the poem

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