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Bedil

बेदिल
said be-dil
also written: abdul qadir bedil, mirza bedil, bidel
Meaning

Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil (d. 1720), the dense, philosophical master of Indo-Persian verse whom Iqbal deeply admired.

See it in the verse

Bedil in Iqbal’s couplets

Tu qadir o adil hai magar tere jahan mein
Hain talkh bahut banda-e-mazdoor ke auqaat
You are all-powerful and just, yet in this world of yours the hours of the labouring worker are very bitter.
Justice
Related words
ARABIC

Ghalib

Dominant, victorious, prevailing; the one who overcomes.

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