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Chashma-e-Aaftab

चश्मा-ए-आफ़ताब
Meaning

The fountain of the sun; the sun imagined as a spring of light.

Literally: Spring of the sun

See it in the verse

Chashma-e-Aaftab in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan
The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.
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Related words
PERSIAN

Chashma

A spring or fountain, the source from which fresh water wells up.

PERSIAN

Aftab

The sun; a common poetic word for the daystar, and for radiant glory.

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