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Arabic · noun · Being & Non-Being

Sukoot

सुकूत
said su-koot
also written: Sukut
Meaning

Silence, stillness, quietude.

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

Shorish se bhagta hun dil DhunDta hai mera
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
Related words
PERSIAN

Khamoshi

Silence, stillness, the state of being quiet.

ARABIC

Sukoon

Peace, calm, tranquillity; stillness.

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