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Persian · noun · Love & Longing

Naqd-e-jaan

नक़्द-ए-जाँ
said naqd-e-JAAN
Meaning

The coin of life; one's very soul treated as ready cash to be spent.

Literally: cash of the soul

How Iqbal uses it

The lover offers his naqd-e-jaan, paying down his life itself as the price of love or union; the soul is the only currency true passion accepts.

See it in the verse

Naqd-e-jaan in Iqbal’s couplets

Nigah buland, sukhan dilnawaz, jaan pur-soz
Yahi hai rakht-e-safar mir-e-karvan ke liye
A lofty gaze, speech that wins the heart, a soul that burns with feeling — this alone is the travelling kit a caravan's leader needs.
Leadership · Aspiration
Related words
ARABIC

Naqd

Literary criticism; critical appraisal; also ready cash.

SANSKRIT

Maata

The mother, a respectful tatsama term also used for goddesses.

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