مرد فرنگ
فساد کا ہے فرنگی معاشرت میں ظہورکہ مرد سادہ ہے بیچارہ زن شناس نہیں
English translation
This vice in Frankish way of life we find, men fools and blind, can't read a woman's mind.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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