مسجد قرطبہ
اول و آخر فنا، باطن و ظاہر فنانقش کہن ہو کہ نو، منزل آخر فنا
English translation
Annihilation is the end of all beginnings; annihilation is the end of all ends. Extinction is the fate of everything; hidden or manifest, old or new.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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 poem۸ / ۶۴