التجائے مسافر
چمن کو چھوڑ کے نکلا ہوں مثل نکہت گلہوا ہے صبر کا منظور امتحاں مجھ کو
English translation
Leaving the garden I have come out like the rose of your fragrance. I am determined to go through the test of perseverance.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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