التجائے مسافر

دلوں کو چاک کرے مثل شانہ جس کا اثرتری جناب سے ایسی ملے فغاں مجھ کو

English translation

Whose effect may penetrate the hearts like a comb; may I receive such a clamour from your threshold!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 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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