مسجد قرطبہ
آب روان کبیر! تیرے کنارے کوئیدیکھ رہا ہے کسی اور زمانے کا خواب
English translation
O, the ever-flowing waters of Guadalquivir! Someone on your banks is seeing a vision of some other period of time. (Guadalquivir: The well-known river of Cordoba, near which the Mosque is located.)
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
آب روان کبير: وادی الکبیر اندلس کا مشہور دریا جس کے دونوں کناروں پر قرطبہ آباد ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 59 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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