التجائے مسافر
نظر ہے ابر کرم پر، درخت صحرا ہوںکیا خدا نے نہ محتاج باغباں مجھ کو
English translation
I am gazing at the mercy’s cloud, I am the wilderness tree; with the Mercy of God I am not in need of the gardener.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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