Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Sahra-navard

सहरा-नवर्द

said sah-raa-na-VARD

Meaning

A desert-wanderer; one who roams the wilderness.

Literally: desert-traverser

How Iqbal uses it

The sahra-navard, like Majnun roaming the wastes, is the figure of the restless seeker who leaves the settled garden for the open desert; in Iqbal the wilderness-wanderer embodies the free, untamed quest that prefers risk to comfort.

See it in the verse

Sahra-navard in Iqbal’s couplets

Sama sakta nahin pahna-e-fitrat mein mera sauda
Ghalat tha ai junun shayad tera andaza-e-sahra

My passion cannot be contained even in the vastness of nature; O madness, perhaps your measure of the desert was wrong.

Restlessness · Aspiration · Selfhood

Related words

PERSIAN

Sahra / Dasht

Desert, wilderness, open wasteland.

ARABIC

Majnun

The archetypal mad lover of Laila; emblem of love-crazed devotion.

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