مسجد قرطبہ
تجھ کو پرکھتا ہے یہ، مجھ کو پرکھتا ہے یہسلسلہ روز و شب، صیرفی کائنات
English translation
Now sitting in judgement on you; now setting a value on me. The succession of day and night is the touchstone of the universe; (one who sifts pure from the impure).
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
صيرفي: صراف کی جمع ؛ صراف یعنی پرکھنے والا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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 poem۴ / ۶۴