Arabic · noun · Nature & the Garden

Sahab

सहाब
said sa-HAAB
also written: sahaab
Meaning

Cloud, the cloud that veils the sky.

Literally: Arabic sahab: clouds drifting across the heavens.

Usage & notes

The cloud sahab veils the sun and stars, and in Iqbal's sky-imagery it figures the obscuring of light, the passing screen that the self's radiance must break through.