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Raqs-o-Sama

रक़्स-ओ-समा
said raqs-o-sa-maa
also written: raqs-o-sama
Meaning

Dance and mystical audition together; the ecstatic whirling and music of the Sufi gathering.

Literally: raqs (dance) + sama (audition).

See it in the verse

Raqs-o-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

Raqs

Dance, especially the whirling ecstatic motion of a heart overcome by joy or mystic love.

ARABIC

Sama

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

ARABIC

Wajd

Ecstasy, rapture; the overwhelming of the heart by divine emotion.

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