مسجد قرطبہ
حرف غلط بن گئی عصمت پیر کنشتاور ہوئی فکر کی کشتی نازک رواں
English translation
Infallibility of the church sage began to ring false. Reason, once more, unfurled its sails.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
پير کنشت: کلیسا کا سب سے بڑا بزرگ - پوپ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 52 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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