Arabic · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Buruj

बुरूज
said bu-rooj
also written: Buroj
Meaning

The twelve signs of the zodiac; also towers or fortified bastions.

Literally: towers

Usage & notes

Iqbal evokes the zodiacal towers as the fixed stations of the old sky, against which he sets the unbounded motion of the awakened self.