مسجد قرطبہ
عرش معلی سے کم سینہ آدم نہیںگرچہ کف خاک کی حد ہے سپہر کبود
English translation
No less exalted than the Exalted Throne; is the throne of the heart, the human breast! Despite the limit of azure skies; ordained for this handful of dust.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
کف خاک: مٹھی بھر خاک - انسان۔سپہر کبود: نیلا آسمان۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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