Meaning
A garden or orchard, a cultivated place of trees, flowers, and shade.
How Iqbal uses it
The baagh is the garden in its fullest sense, the tended world where growth, beauty, and community come together. Iqbal repeatedly reads the garden as the body of a people, its health or ruin standing for the fate of a civilization.
See it in the verse
Baagh in Iqbal’s couplets
Aata hai yaad mujh ko guzra hua zamana
Wo bagh ki baharen, wo sab ka chahchahana
Wo bagh ki baharen, wo sab ka chahchahana
I remember the time that has passed — those springtimes of the garden, that chorus of every bird singing.
Freedom · Restlessness
Baagh-e-bahisht se mujhe hukm-e-safar diya tha kyun
Kaar-e-jahan daraaz hai ab mera intezaar kar
Kaar-e-jahan daraaz hai ab mera intezaar kar
Why was I given the command to depart the garden of paradise? The work of the world is long now — so wait for me.
Action · Aspiration · Restlessness
Related words
PERSIAN
Gulistaan
A rose-garden, a flower-garden, a place full of blooming roses.
PERSIAN
Sahn-e-Chaman
The open courtyard or expanse of the garden, the level ground where the flowers grow.
PERSIAN
Bahaar
Spring, the season of bloom and renewal when the garden returns to life.
ARABIC
Samar
Fruit, the ripened yield of a tree; figuratively the result or reward of effort.