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Khwaab-e-Giraan

ख़्वाब-ए-गिराँ
Meaning

Heavy sleep; a deep slumber, often the torpor of heedlessness.

Literally: heavy sleep

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal repeatedly summons the East to wake from its heavy sleep of inaction.

See it in the verse

Khwaab-e-Giraan in Iqbal’s couplets

Giran-baha hai to hifz-e-khudi se hai warna
Guhar mein aab-e-guhar ke siwa kuchh aur nahin
If you are precious, it is from guarding your selfhood; otherwise a pearl is nothing but the lustre of a pearl.
Selfhood · Self-Knowledge · Humility
Related words
PERSIAN

Khwaab-e-Ghaflat

The sleep of heedlessness; slumbering negligence of one's true state.

PERSIAN

Garaan-khwaab

Heavy with sleep; sunk in deep, dull slumber.

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