مسجد قرطبہ
رنگ ہو یا خشت و سنگ، چنگ ہو یا حرف و صوتمعجزہ فن کی ہے خون جگر سے نمود
English translation
Just the media these pigments, bricks and stones; this harp, these words and sounds, just the media. The miracle of art springs from the lifeblood of the artist!
(Chung: Musical instrument that is played with mouth.)
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
خشت و سنگ: اینٹ اور پتّھرچنگ: مونہہ سے بجایا جانے والا آلہء موسیقی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 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 poem۱۸ / ۶۴