مسجد قرطبہ
اس کی امیدیں قلیل، اس کے مقاصد جلیلاس کی ادا دل فریب، اس کی نگہ دل نواز
English translation
His desires are modest; his aims exalted; his manner charming; his ways winsome.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 37 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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