مسجد قرطبہ
نقش ہیں سب ناتمام خون جگر کے بغیرنغمہ ہے سودائے خام خون جگر کے بغیر
English translation
Incomplete are all creations without the lifeblood of the creator. Soulless is the melody without the lifeblood of the maestro.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 64 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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