دعا
این بندہ را کہ با نفس دیگران نزیستیک آہ خانہ زاد مثال سحر بدہ
English translation
It never pleased me, to receive another’s breath that I might live: Give me a breath as light as morn, a sigh that in the home was born.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
Urdu translation
تیرا یہ بندہ جس نے کسی سے زندگی مستعار لینا قبول نہیں کیا؛ اسے سحر کی مانند آہ خانہ زاد عطا کر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “دعا” (Invocation) in the section Part 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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