Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Gul-e-khandaan

गुल-ए-ख़ंदाँ
said gul-e-khan-DAAN
Meaning

The smiling rose; the flower laughing open in full bloom.

Literally: laughing rose

How Iqbal uses it

The rose pictured as laughing as its petals unfurl; the gul-e-khandaan smiles only briefly before the petals scatter, an emblem of fleeting joy.