Meaning
The wine-cellar; the store-room of casks where the vats of wine are kept.
Literally: cask-house
How Iqbal uses it
The hidden treasury of the tavern from which the Saqi draws; metaphor for an inexhaustible source of intoxicating grace.
See it in the verse
Kham-khaana in Iqbal’s couplets
Jinhen main dhundhta tha aasmanon mein zaminon mein
Wo nikle mere zulmat-khana-e-dil ke makinon mein
Wo nikle mere zulmat-khana-e-dil ke makinon mein
Those I searched for across the skies and the earth turned out to dwell in the darkened house of my own heart.
Self-Knowledge · Awakening · Selfhood
Pukhta hoti hai agar maslahat-andesh ho aql
Ishq ho maslahat-andesh to hai khaam abhi
Ishq ho maslahat-andesh to hai khaam abhi
Reason ripens when it learns to calculate advantage; but love that calculates advantage is still unripe.
Love · Courage · Action
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