مسجد قرطبہ
ملت رومی نژاد کہنہ پرستی سے پیرلذت تجدید سے وہ بھی ہوئی پھر جواں
English translation
Followers of Rome, feeling antiquated worshipping the ancientry, also rejuvenated themselves with the relish of novelty.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
ملت: مراد ہے اہل اٹلی ۔ رومي نژاد
About this couplet
This is couplet 54 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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