عورت کی حفاظت
نے پردہ، نہ تعلیم، نئی ہو کہ پرانینسوانیت زن کا نگہباں ہے فقط مرد
English translation
To wear a veil and learn new lore or old can't guard fair sex except a person bold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “عورت کی حفاظت” (Protection Of The Weaker Vessel) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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