"Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua" ( Urdu: لب پہ آتی ہے دعا; also known as "Bachche Ki Dua"), is a duʿā or prayer, in Urdu verse authored by Muhammad Iqbal in 1902. [1] The dua is recited in morning school assembly almost universally in Pakistan, [2] [3] and in Urdu-medium schools in India. [4] [5]
The song has long been sung in the private The Doon School in Dehradun, India, in a secular morning assembly ritual. [6] The Imam of the Jama Masjid, Delhi, Muhibullah Nadwi, recited it as a boy in an English-medium primary school in India in the 1940s. [7] Even earlier, the prayer was broadcast by All India Radio, Lucknow, a few months after Iqbal's death in 1938. [8] The prayer has also been interpreted by an all-women's American bluegrass music band, Della Mae, which toured Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan in 2012. [9]
In October 2019, a headmaster of a government-run primary school in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, India, was suspended by the district education authorities following complaints by two Hindu nationalist organizations ( Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal) that the song, which was being recited in the school's morning assembly, was [ sic] a " madrasa prayer." [10] Ali was later reinstated but transferred to another school. [11]
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لَب پِہ آتی ہَے دُعا بَن کے تَمَنّا مِری |
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دُور دُنِيا کا مِرے دَم سے اَنْدھيرا ہو جائے |
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ہو مِرے دَم سے يُوں ہی مِرے وَطَن کی زِينَت |
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زِنْدَگی ہو مِری پَرْوانے کی صُورَت، يا رَب |
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ہو مِرا کام غَرِيبوں کی حِمايَت کَرنا |
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مِرے اللہ! بُرائی سے بَچانا مُجھ کو |
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"Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua" ( Urdu: لب پہ آتی ہے دعا; also known as "Bachche Ki Dua"), is a duʿā or prayer, in Urdu verse authored by Muhammad Iqbal in 1902. [1] The dua is recited in morning school assembly almost universally in Pakistan, [2] [3] and in Urdu-medium schools in India. [4] [5]
The song has long been sung in the private The Doon School in Dehradun, India, in a secular morning assembly ritual. [6] The Imam of the Jama Masjid, Delhi, Muhibullah Nadwi, recited it as a boy in an English-medium primary school in India in the 1940s. [7] Even earlier, the prayer was broadcast by All India Radio, Lucknow, a few months after Iqbal's death in 1938. [8] The prayer has also been interpreted by an all-women's American bluegrass music band, Della Mae, which toured Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan in 2012. [9]
In October 2019, a headmaster of a government-run primary school in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, India, was suspended by the district education authorities following complaints by two Hindu nationalist organizations ( Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal) that the song, which was being recited in the school's morning assembly, was [ sic] a " madrasa prayer." [10] Ali was later reinstated but transferred to another school. [11]
Urdu | Roman Urdu | English Translation |
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لَب پِہ آتی ہَے دُعا بَن کے تَمَنّا مِری |
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دُور دُنِيا کا مِرے دَم سے اَنْدھيرا ہو جائے |
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ہو مِرے دَم سے يُوں ہی مِرے وَطَن کی زِينَت |
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زِنْدَگی ہو مِری پَرْوانے کی صُورَت، يا رَب |
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ہو مِرا کام غَرِيبوں کی حِمايَت کَرنا |
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مِرے اللہ! بُرائی سے بَچانا مُجھ کو |
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