Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden
Sabza-e-Begana
सब्ज़ा-ए-बेगाना
said SAB-zaa-e-be-GAA-naa
also written: sabza-e-begana, wild grass
Meaning
The wild, uninvited grass; the self-sprung greenery that grows untended, an emblem of the alien or the free-growing.
Literally: stranger greenery
See it in the verse
Sabza-e-Begana in Iqbal’s couplets
Gulzar-e-hast-o-bud na begana-war dekh
Hai dekhne ki cheez ise bar bar dekh
Hai dekhne ki cheez ise bar bar dekh
Do not look at the garden of existence like a stranger — it is a thing worth seeing; look at it again and again.
Awakening · Hope · Self-Knowledge
Nigah paida kar ai ghafil tajalli ain-e-fitrat hai
Ki apni mauj se begana rah sakta nahin dariya
Ki apni mauj se begana rah sakta nahin dariya
Cultivate vision, O heedless one, for radiance is the very nature of things; a river cannot stay a stranger to its own wave.
Awakening · Self-Knowledge · Selfhood