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Dasht-e-Imkaan

दश्त-ए-इमकाँ
said dasht-e-im-kaan
also written: dasht e imkaan, dashte imkaan, dasht-e-imkan
Meaning

The desert of possibility; the boundless field of the contingent world that lies before the seeker.

Literally: dasht (desert) + imkaan (possibility, the contingent realm)

See it in the verse

Dasht-e-Imkaan 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

Sahra / Dasht

Desert, wilderness, open wasteland.

ARABIC

Imkaan

Contingency, possibility; the contingent being of all that is not God.

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