آزادی نسواں
اس بحث کا کچھ فیصلہ میں کر نہیں سکتاگو خوب سمجھتا ہوں کہ یہ زہر ہے، وہ قند
English translation
I know quite well that one despoils, while other is like candy sweet; I can not give a verdict true, which needs of quest can fully meet.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
مکنوں: میٹھی چیز۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “آزادی نسواں” (Emancipation Of Women) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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