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Shikasta-haal

शिकस्ता-हाल
Meaning

In broken, ruined, or wretched circumstances.

Literally: broken of condition

See it in the verse

Shikasta-haal in Iqbal’s couplets

Tu bacha bacha ke na rakh ise tera aaina hai wo aaina
ke shikasta ho to aziz-tar hai nigah-e-aaina-saaz mein
Do not keep your mirror anxiously protected — yours is the kind of mirror that, even when shattered, is dearer in the eyes of its maker.
Courage · Selfhood · Adversity
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