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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>"'''Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua'''" ({{lang-ur|لب پہ آتی ہے دعا }}), also known as "'''Bachche Ki Dua'''", is an [[Urdu]] language ''[[dua]]'', or prayer, in verse form authored by [[Muhammad Iqbal]] in 1902.<ref>{{cite book|author=Muḥammad Ikrām Cug̲h̲tāʾī|title=Iqbal, new dimensions: a collection of unpublished and rare Iqbalian studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xMNjAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|isbn=978-969-35-1433-9|page=172}}</ref> The poem has been set to music and sung in morning school assembly almost universally in [[Pakistan]],<ref>{{citation|last=Wankwani|first=Ramesh Kumar|title=Iqbal's Dream|date=21 January 2021|url=https://pak-poetry.com/lab-pe-aati-hai-dua-banke-tamanna-meri/|volume=|pages=|publisher=Pak Poetry 24|access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{citation|author=Agencies|title=Joint event to be held on Shakespeare and Iqbal in UK|date=3 November 2016|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/48277/joint-event-to-be-held-on-shakespeare-and-iqbal-in-uk-on-nov-9/|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref> and in Urdu-medium schools in [[India]].<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Athar Tahir|title=Punjab portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTVuAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|isbn=978-969-35-0189-6|page=252}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Rashid|first=Waseem|title=Naib Hain Hum: Interview with [[Waleed Iqbal]] (Urdu)|publisher=Chauthi Dunya|date=8 June 2015}}</ref><br />
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The Imam of the [[Jama Masjid, Delhi]], Muhibullah Nadwi, sang it as a boy in an English-medium primary school in India in the 1940s.<ref name="SalamParvaiz2020">{{cite book|last1=Salam|first1=Ziya Us|last2=Parvaiz|first2=Mohammad Aslam|title=Madrasas in the Age of Islamophobia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-u9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT23|date=12 February 2020|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5328-930-0|pages=23–}}</ref> Even earlier, the du'a was broadcast by [[All India Radio]], [[Lucknow]], a few months after Iqbal's death in 1938.<ref name="Delhi1938">{{cite book|author=All India Radio |title=THE INDIAN LISTENER: Vol. III. No. 20. Lucknow, 8:15 PM (7th OCTOBER 1938)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-PgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1464|date=7 October 1938|publisher=All India Radio |pages=1464–|id=GGKEY:G20PN7BERB5}}</ref><br />
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The song has long been sung in the private [[The Doon School]] in [[Dehradun]], India, in a secular morning assembly ritual.<ref name="Srivastava2005">{{cite book|last=Srivastava|first=Sanjay|title=Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S66GAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|date=27 September 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-68358-1|page=103}} Quote: "The peculiarity of an Indian 'secular' ceremony which includes no references to Islam is too obvious to labour."</ref> The song has also been interpreted by an all-women's American [[bluegrass music]] band, [[Della Mae]], sponsored by the US State Department, which toured Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan in 2012.<ref>{{citation|publisher=Dawn|title=Lab pay aati hai dua… strikes a chord|date=Nov 14, 2012|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/763955|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref><br />
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In October 2019, Furqan Ali, the headmaster of a government-run primary school in [[Pilibhit]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India, was suspended by the district education authorities following complaints by two [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu nationalist]] organizations [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] and [[Bajrang Dal]] that the song, which was being recited in the school's morning assembly, was a "[[madrasa]] prayer."<ref>{{citation|last=Kumar|first=Sanjay|url=https://tribune.com.pk/article/89633/how-an-iqbal-poem-got-a-muslim-teacher-suspended-in-india|title=How an Iqbal poem got a Muslim headmaster suspended in India|publisher=The Express Tribune|date = 22 October 2019|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref> Ali was later reinstated but transferred to another school.<ref>{{citation|author=IANS|date=20 October 2019|title=Suspended UP headmaster reinstated with a warning|publisher=Outlook India|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/suspended-up-headmaster-reinstated-with-a-warning/1644338|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Lyrics==<br />
{|<br />
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! Urdu lyrics<br />
! [[Roman Urdu]] Transliteration<br />
! English Translation<br />
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{{Nastaliq|<br />
لب پہ آتی ہے دعا بن کے تمنا ميری<br/><br />
زندگی شمع کی صورت ہو خدايا ميری}}<br />
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:Lab pe aati hai dua ban ke tamanna meri<br />
:Zindagi shamma ki surat ho Khudaya meri<br />
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:My longing comes to my lips as supplication of mine.<br />
:Oh God! May like the beauty of the candle be the life of mine.<br />
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{{Nastaliq|<br />
دُور دنيا کا مرے دم سے اندھيرا ہو جائے<br/><br />
ہر جگہ ميرے چمکنے سے اُجالا ہو جائے}}<br />
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:Door dunya ka mere dam se andhera ho jaye<br />
:Har jagha mere chamakne se ujala ho jaye<br />
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:May the world's darkness disappear through the life of mine<br />
:May every place light up with the sparkling light of mine<br />
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{{Nastaliq|<br />
ہو مرے دم سے يونہی ميرے وطن کی زينت<br/><br />
جس طرح پھول سے ہوتی ہے چمن کی زينت}}<br />
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:Ho mere dam se yunhi mere watan ki zeenat<br />
:Jis tarha phool se hoti hai chaman ki zeenat<br />
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:May my homeland through me attain elegance<br />
:As the garden through flowers attains elegance<br />
|-<br />
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{{Nastaliq|<br />
زندگی ہو مری پروانے کی صورت يا رب<br/> <br />
علم کی شمع سے ہو مجھ کو محبت يا رب}}<br />
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:Zindagi ho meri parwane ki surat ya Rabb<br />
:Ilm ki shamma se ho mujh ko mohabbat ya Rabb<br />
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:May my life like that of the moth be oh Lord<br />
:May I love the lamp of knowledge oh Lord<br />
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{{Nastaliq|<br />
ہو مرا کام غريبوں کی حمايت کرنا<br/><br />
دردمندوں سے ضعيفوں سے محبت کرنا}}<br />
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:Ho mera kaam gharibon ki himayat karna<br />
:Dardmando se za'eefon se mohabbat karna<br />
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:May supportive of the poor my life's way be<br />
:May loving the old, the suffering my way be<br />
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{{Nastaliq|<br />
مرے اللہ! برائی سے بچانا مُجھ کو<br/><br />
نيک جو راہ ہو اسی رہ پہ چلانا مجھ کو}}<br />
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:Mere allah burai se bachana mujhko<br />
:Naik jo rah ho, ussi reh pe chalana mujhko<br />
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:My God! Protect me from the evil ways<br />
:Show me the path leading to the good ways<br />
|}<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMmf9opaPk Lab pe aati hai dua in Urdu Baithak, California]<br />
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[[Category:Poetry by Muhammad Iqbal]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani poems]]<br />
[[Category:Indian poems]]<br />
[[Category:1902 poems]]<br />
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