Kharaabaat
The tavern quarter, the ruined haunt of drunkards; in Sufi verse the station of ecstatic self-loss.
Literally: the tavern-quarter; ruins where taverns stood
Kharaabaat names the tavern-district — literally the 'ruins', the disreputable edge of town where the wine-houses cluster — and in Sufi verse it becomes the cherished precinct of the lovers of God, the holy ground beyond respectability. To be a pir-e-kharabat (master of the tavern-ruins) is to be a true spiritual guide who teaches by love, not law. The very word fuses ruin and grace: it is in the wreck of the proud ego that the wine of love is poured.
Maikhaana
A tavern, the wine-house; the mystic gathering-place opposed to the mosque's austerity.
Rind
The libertine or free-spirited reveller who flouts pious convention; in Sufi verse, the true lover of God.
Dair
A temple or monastery, especially of the Magians or idolaters; the tavern-shrine of the free lover.