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Persian · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Mehfil-e-sama

महफ़िल-ए-समा
said meh-fil-e-sa-maa
Meaning

A gathering for spiritual listening to music and devotional poetry.

How Iqbal uses it

The Sufi assembly where qawwaali and verse are heard together in pursuit of ecstasy.

See it in the verse

Mehfil-e-sama in Iqbal’s couplets

Sama sakta nahin pahna-e-fitrat mein mera sauda
Ghalat tha ai junun shayad tera andaza-e-sahra
My passion cannot be contained even in the vastness of nature; O madness, perhaps your measure of the desert was wrong.
Restlessness · Aspiration · Selfhood
Related words
ARABIC

Sama

The Sufi practice of spiritual listening to music and poetry to induce ecstasy.

ARABIC

Qawwaali

Devotional Sufi music performed in assembly, sung to induce spiritual ecstasy.

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