مسجد قرطبہ
وادی کہسار میں غرق شفق ہے سحابلعل بدخشاں کے ڈھیر چھوڑ گیا آفتاب
English translation
Clouds in the yonder valley are drenched in roseate twilight. The parting sun has left behind mounds and mounds of rubies, the best from Badakhshan.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
حاب: بادل ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 57 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 poem۵۷ / ۶۴