مسجد قرطبہ
جن کی نگاہوں نے کی تربیت شرق و غربظلمت یورپ میں تھی جن کی خرد راہ بیں
English translation
Their sagacity guided the East and the West. In the dark ages of Europe, it was the light of their vision that lit up the tracks.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 45 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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