التجائے مسافر

اگر سیاہ دلم، داغ لالہ زار تو امو گر کشادہ جبینم، گل بہار تو ام

English translation

If my heart has a stain the stain is of your love; but if cheerful I am, I am the rose of your spring.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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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