التجائے مسافر
بنایا تھا جسے چن چن کے خار و خس میں نےچمن میں پھر نظر آئے وہ آشیاں مجھ کو
English translation
The nest I had made by picking up bits and pieces; may I see the same nest in the garden again!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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 poem۱۳ / ۲۱