صبح کا ستارہ
جس کو شوہر کی رضا تاب شکیبائی دےاور نگاہوں کو حیا طاقت گویائی دے
English translation
To whom pleasing the husband may give the strength for patience and to whose eyes' modesty may give the power to speak.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 of 20 in “صبح کا ستارہ” (The Morning Star –Venus) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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