Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Gul-cheen

गुल-चीं

said gul-CHEEN

also written: Gulchin

Meaning

A flower-gatherer; one who plucks blossoms.

Literally: flower-picker

How Iqbal uses it

The gulchin who plucks the garden's flowers can be both the lover who gathers beauty and the despoiler who strips the garden bare; in ghazal the flower-picker often shades into the figure who profits from the garden's ruin while the nightingale mourns.

See it in the verse

Gul-cheen in Iqbal’s couplets

Safina-e-barg-e-gul bana lega qafila mor-e-na-tawan ka
Hazar maujon ki ho kashakash magar ye dariya se par hoga

The caravan of feeble ants will make a boat of a rose petal; though a thousand waves clash against it, this boat will cross the river.

Hope · Courage · Unity

Related words

ARABIC

Sayyaad

The hunter or fowler who lays snares to trap the birds of the garden.

PERSIAN

Gulistaan

A rose-garden, a flower-garden, a place full of blooming roses.

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