Meaning
Dew.
Literally: dew
Usage & notes
Os is dew in the Hindavi register — the night-gathered bead of water on grass and petal, gone by morning, twin to the Persian shabnam and emblem of tenderness, of tears, and of beauty's brevity. It is the most transient of the garden's adornments. Iqbal's dew-imagery sets such perishing drops against the self-keeping drop he prizes: the dewdrop that evaporates contrasts with the soul that refuses to vanish in the sun.