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Tair-e-Lahooti

तायर-ए-लाहूती
said taa-ir-e-laa-HOO-tee
Meaning

The bird of the divine realm; the celestial bird of the soul.

How Iqbal uses it

The tair-e-lahooti is the soul-bird that belongs to the world of the divine (lahut) and pines in the cage of the body; its yearning to break free and return to its true heaven is one of Iqbal's central images of the spirit's homesickness.

See it in the verse

Tair-e-Lahooti in Iqbal’s couplets

Ai tair-e-lahooti us rizq se maut achhi
Jis rizq se aati ho parvaaz mein kotahi
O celestial bird, better death than the sustenance that brings any shortfall to your flight.
Freedom · The Falcon
Related words
ARABIC

Tair / Parinda

Bird.

ARABIC

Lahoot

The realm of pure divinity, the highest plane of the Sufi cosmology.

ARABIC

Qafas

The cage in which the captured bird is confined, cut off from its garden and sky.

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