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Sahra-naward

सहरानवर्द
said sah-raa-na-VARD
also written: Sahra-navard
Meaning

A wanderer of the desert; one who roams the wilderness, like the mad lover.

Literally: 'desert-roamer'

How Iqbal uses it

The sahra-naward, roaming the wilds like Majnun, is the lover who has fled society for the desert of longing.

See it in the verse

Sahra-naward 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

Deewana

One maddened, especially by love; the crazed lover who has lost himself in passion.

ARABIC

Majnun

The love-maddened Qais who wandered the desert for Laila; the archetype of the lover driven mad by love.

PERSIAN

Sahra / Dasht

Desert, wilderness, open wasteland.

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