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Maar-e-Siyah

मार-ए-सियाह
said MAAR-e-si-YAAH
also written: mar-e-siyah, black snake
Meaning

The black snake; the dark coiling serpent, a figure for the beloved's black tress and for lurking peril.

Literally: black snake

See it in the verse

Maar-e-Siyah 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
PERSIAN

Mar

The snake or serpent; the coiled creature, figure for the beloved's tress and for lurking danger alike.

PERSIAN

Zulf

A lock or tress of hair; the curling hair of the beloved.

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