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Persian · noun · The Tavern & the Cup

Baada-kash

बादा-कश
said BAA-da-kash
Meaning

A wine-drinker; one who habitually drains the cup.

Literally: wine-drawer

How Iqbal uses it

The honoured habitué of the tavern, often a figure for the seeker drunk on divine love rather than mere wine.

See it in the verse

Baada-kash in Iqbal’s couplets

Har ek chiz se paida khuda ki qudrat hai
Koi baDa koi chhoTa ye us ki hikmat hai
Every single thing reveals the power of creation; that one is large and another small is part of its wisdom.
Humility · Self-Knowledge · Hope
Related words
PERSIAN

Baadah

Wine; the classic Persian-poetic term for the intoxicant of divine love.

PERSIAN

Mai-kashi

Wine-drinking; the practice of imbibing, used metaphorically for the pursuit of divine love.

PERSIAN

Durd-kash

One who drinks even the dregs; a hardened, humble drinker who refuses nothing of the cup.

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