عورت
شرف میں بڑھ کے ثریا سے مشت خاک اس کیکہ ہر شرف ہے اسی درج کا در مکنوں
English translation
Her handful clay is superior far to Pleiades that so higher are for every man with knowledge vast, like gem out of her cask is cast.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
درج: ڈبہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “عورت” (Woman) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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