Meaning
Fruit or produce, a variant of samar denoting the yield of a tree or of effort.
How Iqbal uses it
Like samar, thamar marks the fruit of growth and the reward of endeavour. It belongs to the imagery of harvest by which Iqbal measures whether a season of striving has come to fulfilment.
See it in the verse
Thamar in Iqbal’s couplets
Main shakh-e-taak hun meri ghazal hai mera samar
Mire samar se mai-e-laala-faam paida kar
Mire samar se mai-e-laala-faam paida kar
I am the vine-branch; my ghazal is my fruit — from my fruit, press out the rose-red wine.
Aspiration · Action · Youth
Main shakh-e-tak hun meri ghazal hai mera samar
Mere samar se mai-e-lala-fam paida kar
Mere samar se mai-e-lala-fam paida kar
I am a branch of the vine, my song is my fruit; from that fruit press out the tulip-red wine.
Action · Aspiration · Youth