Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Gulistaan

गुलिस्ताँ

said gu-lis-taan

also written: Gulistan

Meaning

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

Literally: place of roses

How Iqbal uses it

The gulistan is the flourishing garden of beauty and community, the rose-realm that the breeze tends and the autumn threatens. Iqbal turns it into a figure of the ideal collective, a garden whose many flowers share one springtime.

See it in the verse

Gulistaan in Iqbal’s couplets

Aaj bhi ho jo Baraheem ka iman paida
Aag kar sakti hai andaz-e-gulistan paida

Even today, if the faith of Abraham were born again, the fire itself could be made to bloom like a garden.

Courage · Adversity · Hope

Related words

PERSIAN

Baagh

A garden or orchard, a cultivated place of trees, flowers, and shade.

PERSIAN

Sahn-e-Chaman

The open courtyard or expanse of the garden, the level ground where the flowers grow.

PERSIAN

Bahaar

Spring, the season of bloom and renewal when the garden returns to life.

ARABIC

Raunaq

Splendour, brightness, the lustre and liveliness that make a place flourish.

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