التجائے مسافر
ریاض دہر میں مانند گل رہے خنداںکہ ہے عزیز تر از جاں وہ جان جاں مجھ کو
English translation
May he remain happy in the world like rose; whom I have always held dearer than my life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 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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