التجائے مسافر
نفس سے جس کے کھلی میری آرزو کی کلیبنایا جس کی مروت نے نکتہ داں مجھ کو
English translation
Whose breath opened the flower bud of my longing by whose benevolence I became sagacious.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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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