Rind
The libertine or free-spirited reveller who flouts pious convention; in Sufi verse, the true lover of God.
Literally: the libertine; carefree wine-drinker
The rind is the tavern's free spirit — the wine-bibbing, rule-breaking libertine who scandalises the pious — but in Sufi verse he is the hero: his 'sin' of drinking love makes him truer than the calculating zahid, for he has staked everything on the Beloved. His drunkenness is sincerity; his ruin is grace. Iqbal lifts the rind into a near-ideal of the self: irreverent toward dead convention, ablaze with love, careless of consequence because consumed by a higher fire — the living believer set against the lifeless ascetic.
Zahid
An ascetic or abstinent devotee; in Urdu poetry, often the dry pietist foil to the lover of God.
Maikhana
The tavern; in Sufi symbolism, the lodge of spiritual intoxication where divine wine is served.
Zaahid
An ascetic, an austere pietist; in ghazal the killjoy foil to the wine-loving rind.
Mai-parast
A wine-worshipper; a confirmed devotee of drink.