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Urdu · noun · Mind & Knowledge

Sud-Bud

सुध-बुध
Meaning

Sense and awareness; one's wits and self-possession.

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal evokes the lover or ecstatic who loses all sud-bud in the rush of feeling.

See it in the verse

Sud-Bud in Iqbal’s couplets

Gulzar-e-hast-o-bud na begana-war dekh
Hai dekhne ki cheez ise bar bar dekh
Do not look at the garden of existence like a stranger — it is a thing worth seeing; look at it again and again.
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