Persian · noun · The Heart & the Body
Garaan-Khwaabi
गराँ-ख़्वाबी
said ga-raan-khwaa-bee
also written: Garankhwabi
Meaning
Heavy, deathlike sleep; figuratively a deep heedlessness or torpor.
Literally: heavy sleep
How Iqbal uses it
A favourite Iqbal reproach for a nation or soul sunk in slumber, needing to be roused.
See it in the verse
Garaan-Khwaabi in Iqbal’s couplets
Ye ek sajda jise tu garaan samajhta hai
Hazaar sajdon se deta hai aadmi ko nijaat
Hazaar sajdon se deta hai aadmi ko nijaat
This one act of devotion, which you find so heavy to make — it frees a person from a thousand servile bowings.
Freedom · Selfhood
Utha na sheesha-garaan-e-firang ke ehsaan
Safaal-e-Hind se mina-o-jaam paida kar
Safaal-e-Hind se mina-o-jaam paida kar
Do not be indebted to the glassmakers of the foreign land — fashion your goblet and cup from the clay of your own soil.
Selfhood · Freedom · Action