مسجد قرطبہ
جن کی حکومت سے ہے فاش یہ رمز غریبسلطنت اہل دل فقر ہے، شاہی نہیں
English translation
Their reign gave the world an unfamiliar concept; that the authority of the brave and spirited lay in modesty and simplicity, rather than pomp and regality.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
رمز غريب: نادر نکتہ، عجیب بھید۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 44 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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