انتداب
جہاں قمار نہیں، زن تنک لباس نہیںجہاں حرام بتاتے ہیں شغل مے خواری
English translation
Where dice and drink are both by law forbid, and women keep their bodies fully hide.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
تنک لباس: کم لباس ، نیم عریاں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “انتداب” (Tutelage) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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