Meaning
Deliberate inattention or feigned negligence by the beloved, who pretends not to notice the lover.
Literally: heedlessness, willful neglect
Usage & notes
A prized coquetry of the beloved in the ghazal: the studied indifference that wounds yet enchants. Iqbal redirects the motif toward the divine and toward a slumbering ummah whose taghaful is its tragedy.