مسجد قرطبہ
عشق کے مضراب سے نغمہ تار حیاتعشق سے نور حیات، عشق سے نار حیات
English translation
Love is the plectrum that brings music to the string of life. Love is the light of life, Love is the fire of life.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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 poem۱۶ / ۶۴