عورت
مکالمات فلاطوں نہ لکھ سکی، لیکناسی کے شعلے سے ٹوٹا شرار افلاطوں
English translation
Like Plato cannot hold discourse, nor can with thunderous voice declaim but Plato was a spark that broke from her fire that blazed like flame.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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