عورت
میں بھی مظلومی نسواں سے ہوں غم ناک بہتنہیں ممکن مگر اس عقدہ مشکل کی کشود!
English translation
The oppression of fair sex has cast me down a lot: I can not think of means that can resolve this knot.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
عقدہ مشکل کي کشود: مشکل گرہ کو کھولنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “عورت” (Woman) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۴