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Chaar-chaand

चार-चाँद

Meaning

To greatly enhance or add lustre — 'chaar chaand lagana', to make something shine four moons brighter.

Literally: 'four moons'

See it in the verse

Chaar-chaand in Iqbal’s couplets

Har shai musafir har cheez raahi
Kya chand tare kya murgh o maahi

Every thing is a traveller, every object a wayfarer — whether the moon and stars, or the birds and the fish.

Restlessness · Action · Unity

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