Meaning
Silence, stillness, quietude.
Literally: From the Arabic root s-k-t, to be silent.
How Iqbal uses it
The pregnant silence of stillness; sometimes the deathly hush of a heedless people, sometimes the deep quiet before revelation.
See it in the verse
Sukoot in Iqbal’s couplets
Khuda agar dil-e-fitrat-shanaas de tujh ko
Sukoot-e-laala-o-gul se kalaam paida kar
Sukoot-e-laala-o-gul se kalaam paida kar
If God gives you a heart that can read Nature, then draw speech out of the silence of the tulip and the rose.
Self-Knowledge · Aspiration · Awakening
Shorish se bhagta hun dil DhunDta hai mera
Aisa sukut jis par taqrir bhi fida ho
Aisa sukut jis par taqrir bhi fida ho
I flee from the noise; my heart is searching for a silence so deep that even speech would gladly surrender to it.
Self-Knowledge · Restlessness · Awakening