مسجد قرطبہ
پیکر نوری کو ہے سجدہ میسر تو کیااس کو میسر نہیں سوز و گداز سجود
English translation
Celestial beings, born of light; do have the privilege of supplication, but unknown to them are the verve and warmth of prostration.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
پيکر نوري: نورانی وجود یعنی فرشتے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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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