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Persian · noun · The Tavern & the Cup
Saaghar-e-Sad-Pasha
साग़र-ए-सद-पाशा
Meaning
A goblet shattered into a hundred fragments.
Literally: hundred-broken goblet
See it in the verse
Saaghar-e-Sad-Pasha in Iqbal’s couplets
Afsos sad-afsos ki shahin na bana tu
Dekhe na teri aankh ne fitrat ke ishaarat
A pity, a hundred pities, that you never became a falcon; your eye never read the signs that nature held out.
The Falcon · Awakening · Aspiration
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