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Kaneez-e-mar

अफ़ई
also written: Afa
Meaning

A viper; the deadly horned snake of the desert, a byword for lurking venom.

See it in the verse

Kaneez-e-mar in Iqbal’s couplets

Ho agar khudnigar-o-khudgar-o-khudgir khudi
Ye bhi mumkin hai ki tu maut se bhi mar na sake
If your selfhood becomes self-seeing, self-making and self-possessed, it is even possible that not even death can make you die.
Selfhood · Self-Knowledge
Related words
ARABIC

Afi

A viper or venomous snake; the Arabic word for the poisonous serpent.

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