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Sanskrit · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Suraj

सूरज
said SOO-raj
Meaning

The sun.

How Iqbal uses it

The everyday word for the sun, suraj shares the solar symbolism of self-generated light and the daily triumph of day over the night of darkness.

See it in the verse

Suraj in Iqbal’s couplets

Khol aankh, zameen dekh, falak dekh, fiza dekh
Mashriq se ubharte hue suraj ko zara dekh
Open your eyes — look at the earth, the sky, the open air; just look at the sun rising in the east.
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Related words
PERSIAN

Aftaab

The sun.

PERSIAN

Khurshid

The sun.

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Mehr

The sun (also, by another root, love and kindness).

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