Meaning
A deep, heavy silence or stillness, often the desolate hush that descends after tumult or in a forsaken heart.
Literally: total absence of sound, stillness
Usage & notes
Sannaata is silence with weight, the dread quiet of a desolate place or a numbed heart. Iqbal sets such lifeless hush against the living clamour he prizes, treating dead stillness as something to be broken.