مسجد قرطبہ

تیرے در و بام پر وادی ایمن کا نورتیرا منار بلند جلوہ گہ جبرئیل

English translation

Your arches, your terraces, shimmer with the light that once flashed in the Valley of Aiman. Your soaring minaret, all aglow in the resplendence of Jibril’s glory.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 27 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 poem

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