التجائے مسافر
جلا کے جس کی محبت نے دفتر من و توہوائے عیش میں پالا، کیا جواں مجھ کو
English translation
Who in his love, destroying the book of ‘you and I’ has brought me up to my youth in the environment of happiness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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