التجائے مسافر
فلک نشیں صفت مہر ہوں زمانے میںتری دعا سے عطا ہو وہ نردباں مجھ کو
English translation
May I be living elegantly in the world like the sun! May I be bestowed with that ladder by your blessings!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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