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Khwaab-o-khayaal

ख़्वाब-ओ-ख़याल
Meaning

Dream and fancy; a mere illusion, something unreal.

Literally: 'dream and thought'

See it in the verse

Khwaab-o-khayaal in Iqbal’s couplets

Hayat kya hai khayal o nazar ki majzubi
Khudi ki maut hai andesha-ha-e-guna-gun
What is life? The absorbed focus of thought and vision; and scattered, many-coloured doubts are the death of selfhood.
Selfhood · Action · Self-Knowledge
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