Persian · noun · The Heart & the Body

Faryaad

फ़रियाद
said far-YAAD
also written: Fariyad, faryad, fariyaad, Faryad
Meaning

A cry for help; a complaint or appeal.

Literally: cry, lament, plea for redress

How Iqbal uses it

Faryaad is the lover's cry — the loud lament wrung from a heart broken by the beloved's cruelty or by the long pain of separation. It is grief that will not stay silent, the wail that rises to the heavens. The ghazal is full of these cries; for Iqbal the faryaad can become something larger — the protesting cry of the awakened soul, even the complaint (shikwa) flung at God, longing turned into a voice that demands rather than merely weeps.