عورت
English title: WOMAN
وجود زن سے ہے تصوير کائنات ميں رنگاسي کے ساز سے ہے زندگي کا سوز دروں
The picture that this world presents from woman gets its tints and scents'; she is the lyre that can impart pathos and warmth to human heart.
شرف ميں بڑھ کے ثريا سے مشت خاک اس کيکہ ہر شرف ہے اسي درج کا در مکنوں
Her handful clay is superior far to Pleiades that so higher are for every man with knowledge vast, like gem out of her cask is cast.
مکالمات فلاطوں نہ لکھ سکي ، ليکناسي کے شعلے سے ٹوٹا شرار افلاطوں
Like Plato cannot hold discourse, nor can with thunderous voice declaim but Plato was a spark that broke from her fire that blazed like flame.
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Zarb-e-Kalim — عورت — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Zarb-e-Kalim — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- Zarb-e-Kalim English translation at allama-iqbal.com — Woman — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-06; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Syed Akbar Ali Shah; English Translation by: Syed Akbar Ali ShahSource