مسجد قرطبہ
قطرہ خون جگر، سل کو بناتا ہے دلخون جگر سے صدا سوز و سرور و سرود
English translation
A droplet of the lifeblood transforms a piece of dead rock into a living heart; An impressive sound, into a song of solicitude, A refrain of rapture or a melody of mirth.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
سل: پتّھر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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.
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