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Char Chand Lagana

चार चाँद लगाना

also written: chaar chand lagana

Meaning

To greatly enhance the beauty, honour or glory of something.

Literally: to add four moons

See it in the verse

Char Chand Lagana 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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