Meaning
The hunt, or the prey that is hunted; the chase of game.
How Iqbal uses it
Shikaar carries the double sense of the pursuit and its target, central to Iqbal's eagle imagery of a self that lives by striking for its own quarry. It celebrates the active, predatory life over the passive existence of the hunted.
See it in the verse
Shikaar in Iqbal’s couplets
Gesu-e-tabdar ko aur bhi tabdar kar
Hosh-o-khirad shikar kar qalb-o-nazar shikar kar
Hosh-o-khirad shikar kar qalb-o-nazar shikar kar
Make the radiant tresses more radiant still — capture sense and reason, hunt down the heart and the eye.
Love · Aspiration · Restlessness
Nigah-e-ishq dil-e-zinda ki talash mein hai
Shikar-e-murda sazawar-e-shahbaz nahin
Shikar-e-murda sazawar-e-shahbaz nahin
The gaze of love is searching for a living heart — dead quarry is not worthy of the royal falcon.
Love · The Falcon · Awakening