مسجد قرطبہ

آنی و فانی تمام معجزہ ہائے ہنرکار جہاں بے ثبات، کار جہاں بے ثبات!

English translation

Frail and evanescent, all miracles of ingenuity; transient, all temporal attainments, ephemeral, all worldly accomplishments.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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 poem

۷ / ۶۴