مسجد قرطبہ
صورت شمشیر ہے دست قضا میں وہ قومکرتی ہے جو ہر زماں اپنے عمل کا حساب
English translation
Keen, as a sword in the hands of Destiny: Is the nation that evaluates its actions at each step.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 63 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 poem۶۳ / ۶۴