مسجد قرطبہ
اس کے زمانے عجیب، اس کے فسانے غریبعہد کہن کو دیا اس نے پیام رحیل
English translation
Fabulous, have been his times! Fascinating, the accounts of his achievements! He it was, who bade the final adieu to the outworn order.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
رحيل: کوچ –سفر کا آغاز
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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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