PRAYER OF A CHILD

(original in Urdu by Allama Iqbal)

On my lips comes this prayer, O God

 
 This life of me be the life of a lamp  So that through me the darkness of the world must disappear

 
 Let me shine that bright O Lord

 
 My life must bring grace to my land 

 Like a flower does a park pride

 
 Shape my life after a moth O Lord

  So that I'm drawn to the light of knowledge

 Let my job be to plead for the poor

 And love the Old and the Suffering

 O God save me from evil

 And make me tread the path of the righteous