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ہزار بار حکیموں نے اس کو سلجھایا
مگر یہ مسئلۂ زن رہا وہیں کا وہیں
Hazar baar hakimon ne is ko suljhaya
Magar ye mas'ala-e-zan raha vahin ka vahin
قصور زن کا نہیں ہے کچھ اس خرابی میں
گواہ اس کی شرافت پہ ہیں مہ و پرویں
Qusur zan ka nahin hai kuchh is kharabi mein
Gavah is ki sharafat pe hain mah-o-parvin
فساد کا ہے فرنگی معاشرت میں ظہور
کہ مرد سادہ ہے بیچارہ زن شناس نہیں
Fasad ka hai farangi muasharat mein zuhur
Ki mard sada hai bechara zan-shanas nahin
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936), section "Aurat" — nazm
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"The European man": the sages have tried a thousand times to settle the question of woman; Iqbal lays the fault not on woman but on the man of Western society, who does not understand her.
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