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Jaam-e-Alast

जाम-ए-अलस्त
Meaning

The cup of the primordial covenant; the draught the souls drank on the day God asked 'Am I not your Lord?'

Literally: cup of Alast

How Iqbal uses it

The poet traces all earthly drunkenness back to the jaam-e-alast, the first cup that fixed the soul's love before time began.

See it in the verse

Jaam-e-Alast in Iqbal’s couplets

Utha na sheesha-garaan-e-firang ke ehsaan
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.
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Related words
ARABIC

Alast

The primordial covenant in which God asked the souls 'Am I not your Lord?' and they answered 'Yes'.

PERSIAN

Mast-e-Alast

Intoxicated since the primordial covenant; drunk on the wine of the eternal 'Am I not?'

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