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Silsila-jumbaan

सिलसिला-जुंबाँ
also written: Silsila-junban
Meaning

Chain-shaking; one who rattles his fetters, the very image of romantic madness.

Literally: chain-mover

How Iqbal uses it

The silsila-jumbaan lover sets his chains ringing, turning the marks of confinement into a defiant song.

See it in the verse

Silsila-jumbaan in Iqbal’s couplets

Silsila-e-roz-o-shab, naqsh-gar-e-haadsat
Silsila-e-roz-o-shab, asl-e-hayat-o-mamat
The chain of day and night is the sculptor of all events; the chain of day and night is the root of life and of death.
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Related words
PERSIAN

Zanjeer-e-junoon

The chain of madness; the fetters in which a frenzied lover is bound.

PERSIAN

Pa-bajaulaan

With feet in fetters; shackled, yet often still moving forward.

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