Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Reg-e-Rawaan

रेग-ए-रवाँ

said reg-e-ra-WAAN

Meaning

Shifting sand; moving desert sand-dunes.

Literally: flowing sand

How Iqbal uses it

The reg-e-rawaan, the sand that shifts and gives no firm footing, is an image of the unstable and the treacherous ground; against its restless drift Iqbal sets the firm rock and the rooted resolve that does not slide beneath the traveller's feet.

See it in the verse

Reg-e-Rawaan in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan

The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Reg

Sand, the fine grains that make up the desert floor.

PERSIAN

Regzaar

A sandy tract or expanse of desert sand.

ARABIC

Saraab

A mirage, the illusion of water shimmering on the desert that deceives the thirsty traveller.

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