Persian · adjective · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Tahi

तही

also written: Tehi

Meaning

Empty, void, devoid of something.

Literally: Persian tihi, hollow or empty.

How Iqbal uses it

When Iqbal says the expanses are not tahi of life, he asserts a cosmos teeming with hidden worlds and waiting destinies, the opposite of a barren void.

See it in the verse

Tahi in Iqbal’s couplets

Tahi zindagi se nahin ye fazayen
Yahan saikron karwan aur bhi hain

These open skies are not empty of life — here there are hundreds of other caravans as well.

Hope · Aspiration · Unity

Related words

ARABIC

Khala

Void, empty space, vacuum.

ARABIC

Fana

Annihilation, the Sufi passing-away of the self into God.

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