مرد فرنگ
ہزار بار حکیموں نے اس کو سلجھایامگر یہ مسئلہ زن رہا وہیں کا وہیں
English translation
To solve this riddle thinkers have much tried, their efforts all so far it has defied.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “مرد فرنگ” (The Frankish Man) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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