مسجد قرطبہ

جن کے لہو کے طفیل آج بھی ہیں اندلسیخوش دل و گرم اختلاط، سادہ و روشن جبیں

English translation

A tribute to their blood it is, that the Andalusians, even today, are effable and warm-hearted, ingenuous and bright of countenance.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

Word meanings

گرم اختلاط: میل جول میں پر تپاک۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 46 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

۴۶ / ۶۴