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.
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