عورت اور تعلیم
بیگانہ رہے دیں سے اگر مدرسہ زنہے عشق و محبت کے لیے علم و ہنر موت
English translation
If schools for girls no lore impart on creed, then lore and crafts for Love are death indeed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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