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Persian · noun · Being & Non-Being
Arz-o-Sama
अर्ज़-ओ-समा
said
ar-z-o-sa-maa
Meaning
Earth and sky; the whole created universe.
Literally: lit. earth and heaven
See it in the verse
Arz-o-Sama in Iqbal’s couplets
Sama sakta nahin pahna-e-fitrat mein mera sauda
Ghalat tha ai junun shayad tera andaza-e-sahra
My passion cannot be contained even in the vastness of nature; O madness, perhaps your measure of the desert was wrong.
Restlessness · Aspiration · Selfhood
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