مسجد قرطبہ
ساقی ارباب ذوق، فارس میدان شوقبادہ ہے اس کا رحیق، تیغ ہے اس کی اصیل
English translation
A cup-bearer is he; with the purest wine for the connoisseur; a cavalier in the path of Love with a sword of the finest steel.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
رحيق: خالص اور صاف شراب۔ فارس: شہسوار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 31 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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