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Tu Ghani Az Har Do Alam man Faqir: A poem that Allama Iqbal penned but doesn’t belong to him! . This Sufi story goes back more than a century now. In small city of Dera Ghazi Khan , a boy was born and named Muhammad Ramzan.   Despite working for British Civil Services, he remained a Sufi at heart and mureed of Maulana Faiz Muhammad Shah Jamali. He was also a poet with Takhalus of ‘Itaai’ hence became known as Muhammad Ramzan Itaai  [محمّد رمضان عطائی ] . He was also a huge admirer of Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry.    Muammad Ramzan Itaai had a friend Maulana Ibrahim Naagi, who was a friend of Dr. Allama Iqbal. One day as Ibrahim Naagi returned from Lahore, he brought some fresh kalam by Dr Allama Iqbal as below: تو غنی از ہر دو عالم من فقیر روز محشر عذر ہائے من پذیر ورحسابم را تو بینی نا گزیر از نگاہ مصطفےﷺ پنہاں بگیر You are the self sufficient (un-wanting) and independent from both the worlds and I am a miserable Faqeer. At the day of judgement (Doomsday) please accept my excuse and forgive me If you must want to open my record and it is inevitable (unavoidable) Please keep it hidden from my beloved prophet Mustafa (PBUH) اے میرے رب , روز قیامت یہ جہان پیر اپنے انجام کو پہنچ جائے اور ہر پوشیدہ تقدیر ظاہر ہو جائے تو اس دن مجھے میرے آقا و مولا کے حضور رسوا نہ کرنا اور میرا نامہ اعمال آپ کی نگاہوں سے بچا کر کرنا When Ibrahim Naagi finished reciting the kalam, he had tears in eyes with such heart touching verses. But it affected Muhamad Ramzan Itaai even harder and he went into state of wajd and went unconscious.    Muhamad Ramzan Itaai later went for Hajj pilgrimage and there a thought came to his mind that perhaps he should ask Allama Muhammad Iqbal to give this beautiful Rubaai.    Upon his return to Punjab, he wrote a letter to Muhammad Iqbal in which he humbly made this request. Some time later, he received a letter of consent from Dr Allama Iqbal in which stated that such poems are not anyone’s property and he can happily take it.    When Armaghan-e-Hijaz was composed, Allama took above verses out of the compilation and it still doesn’t exist in the book. When Muhammad Ramzan died, he made a bequest that these verses to be written on his forehead.