Persian · noun · Being & Non-Being

Dasht-e-tanhaai

दश्त-ए-तन्हाई
said dasht-e-tan-HAAI
Meaning

The desert of solitude; a wilderness of utter loneliness.

Literally: desert of solitude

How Iqbal uses it

The vast emptiness in which the lonely heart wanders without a companion; the dasht-e-tanhaai is loneliness stretched to the horizon.