Persian · adjective · Love & Longing

Mast

मस्त
said mast
also written: mast-e-alast, masti
Meaning

Intoxicated, ecstatic, drunk with wine or love; carefree in rapture.

Literally: drunk; intoxicated; ecstatic

Usage & notes

Mast is the adjective for one who is drunk — and in Sufi usage the soul intoxicated with divine love, swept beyond sober self-possession. The mast-e-alast is drunk on the primordial covenant, the wine poured at the dawn of creation. To be mast is to be alive with love rather than merely correct; Iqbal honours the kind of drunkenness that fuels, not the kind that fells.