مرد فرنگ

قصور زن کا نہیں ہے کچھ اس خرابی میںگواہ اس کی شرافت پہ ہیں مہ و پرویں

English translation

No doubt, to woman's faith and conduct clear, the Pleiades and moon do witness bear.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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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