مسجد قرطبہ
اے حرم قرطبہ! عشق سے تیرا وجودعشق سراپا دوام، جس میں نہیں رفت و بود
English translation
To Love, you owe your being, O, Haram of Cordoba; to Love, that is eternal; never waning, never fading.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
رفت و بود: گیا اور تھا یعنی فنا ہو جانا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 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 poem۱۷ / ۶۴