آزادی نسواں
کیا چیز ہے آرائش و قیمت میں زیادہآزادی نسواں کہ زمرد کا گلوبند
English translation
It is an uphill task to judge what is more precious lends much grace; emancipation for fair sex or aught or emerald-wrought superb neck-lace.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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