عورت اور تعلیم
تہذیب فرنگی ہے اگر مرگ امومتہے حضرت انساں کے لیے اس کا ثمر موت
English translation
If Frankish culture blights the motherly urge, for human race it means a funeral dirge.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
امومت: ماں ہونا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “عورت اور تعلیم” (Women And Education) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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