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Aftab-o-mahtab

आफ़ताब-ओ-माहताब
Meaning

Sun and moon; the paired luminaries of day and night.

Literally: sun and moon

See it in the verse

Aftab-o-mahtab in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan
The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.
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Aftab

The sun; a common poetic word for the daystar, and for radiant glory.

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