مسجد قرطبہ

عقل کی منزل ہے وہ، عشق کا حاصل ہے وہحلقہ آفاق میں گرمی محفل ہے وہ

English translation

He is the journey’s end for reason, he is the raison d ’etre of Love. An inspiration in the cosmic communion.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 40 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 poem

۴۰ / ۶۴