Persian · noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Bazm

बज़्म
said bazm
also written: Bazme, bazm-e-mai, bazm-e-saaqi
Meaning

A festive assembly or gathering.

Literally: Persian bazm, a banquet or convivial assembly, opposed to razm (battle).

How Iqbal uses it

The bazm is the gathering — the wine-assembly where the saqi pours and the lovers drink — and so, in Sufi verse, the very congregation of the seekers of God, warm with shared love. It is the social heart of the tavern-symbolism, the fellowship that the cold ascetic forsakes. Iqbal often weighs the living bazm of love against the lonely correctness of the abstainer, and asks the saqi to keep the assembly's wine flowing.