شیخ صاحب بھی تو پردے کے کوئی حامی نہیں

شیخ صاحب بھی تو پردے کے کوئی حامی نہیںمفت میں کالج کے لڑکے ان سے بدظن ہو گئےوعظ میں فرما دیا کل آپ نے یہ صاف صاف"پروہ آخر کس سے ہو جب مرد ہی زن ہو گئے"

English translation

The Shaikh also is not a supporter of women’s seclusion; the college boys unnecessarily suspicious of him became.
He clearly stated in the sermon yesterday: ‘From whom would women be secluded if men women became’

(Humorous reference to the clean-shaved faces adopted by men in the Indian Sub-continent following Lord Curzon. The word used in the original is ‘zan’, which is the Persian word for ‘woman’. There is a pun in ‘zan’ and ‘Curzon’.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 1 in “⁨شیخ صاحب بھی تو پردے کے کوئی حامی نہیں⁩” (Sheikh sahab bhi to parde ke koi haami nahin) in the section Humorous Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

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