مسجد قرطبہ
نرم دم گفتگو، گرم دم جستجورزم ہو یا بزم ہو، پاک دل و پاک باز
English translation
Soft in social exposure, tough in the line of pursuit. But whether in fray or in social gathering; ever chaste at heart, ever clean in conduct.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 38 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 poem۳۸ / ۶۴