مسجد قرطبہ
دیدہ انجم میں ہے تیری زمیں، آسماںآہ کہ صدیوں سے ہے تیری فضا بے اذاں
English translation
Stars look upon your precincts as a piece of heaven. But for centuries, alas! Your porticoes have not resonated with the call of the muezzin.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 49 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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