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Jawab-e-Shikwa

जवाब-ए-शिकवा
said ja-waab-e-shik-wa
also written: jawab e shikwa, jawabe shikwa, jawab-e-shikwah
Meaning

The Answer to the Complaint; God's reply to the believer's complaint, title of Iqbal's famous sequel poem.

Literally: jawab (answer, reply) + shikwa (complaint)

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal's celebrated poem in which the Divine answers the grievances raised in his earlier 'Shikwa'.

See it in the verse

Jawab-e-Shikwa in Iqbal’s couplets

Aflaak se aata hai naalon ka javaab aakhir
Karte hain khitaab aakhir uThte hain hijaab aakhir
At last the skies answer the cries that rise to them; at last the veils lift and the silence breaks into speech.
Hope · Action · Aspiration
Related words
ARABIC

Jawaab

An answer or reply.

ARABIC

Shikwa

Complaint and reproach; a grievance voiced to the beloved or to God.

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