مسجد قرطبہ

آج بھی اس دیس میں عام ہے چشم غزالاور نگاہوں کے تیر آج بھی ہیں دل نشیں

English translation

Even today in this land, eyes like those of gazelles are a common sight. And darts shooting out of those eyes, even today, are on target.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 47 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

۴۷ / ۶۴