مسجد قرطبہ

عشق فقیہ حرم، عشق امیر جنودعشق ہے ابن السبیل، اس کے ہزاروں مقام

English translation

Love is the commander of marching troops, Love is a wayfarer with many a way-side abode.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

Word meanings

ابن السبيل: مسافر جنود: فوجیں، لشکر

About this couplet

This is couplet 15 of 64 in “⁨مسجد قرطبہ⁩” (Mosque Of Cordoba) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

۱۵ / ۶۴