پھول کا تحفہ عطا ہونے پر
الہی! پھولوں میں وہ انتخاب مجھ کو کرے"کلی سے رشک گل آفتاب مجھ کو کرے
English translation
‘O God! Out of all flowers he may he pick me! From flower-bud into full flower he may turn me.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “پھول کا تحفہ عطا ہونے پر” (On Being Presented With A Flower) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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