Persian · adjective · Time, Fate & the Cosmos
Tiir-o-Taar
तीर-ओ-तार
said tee-ra-o-taar
also written: Tira-o-Taar
Meaning
Pitch-dark, utterly black and gloomy.
Literally: dark and obscure
How Iqbal uses it
Total blackness paints the night of decline in Iqbal, the densest dark before the self strikes its spark of dawn.
See it in the verse
Tiir-o-Taar in Iqbal’s couplets
Tu bacha bacha ke na rakh ise tera aaina hai wo aaina
Ki shikasta ho to azeez-tar hai nigah-e-aaina-saaz mein
Ki shikasta ho to azeez-tar hai nigah-e-aaina-saaz mein
Do not hoard and shield your heart — it is the kind of mirror that, once broken, grows dearer in the eyes of the Mirror-maker.
Love · Courage · Adversity
Tu bacha bacha ke na rakh ise tera aaina hai wo aaina
ke shikasta ho to aziz-tar hai nigah-e-aaina-saaz mein
ke shikasta ho to aziz-tar hai nigah-e-aaina-saaz mein
Do not keep your mirror anxiously protected — yours is the kind of mirror that, even when shattered, is dearer in the eyes of its maker.
Courage · Selfhood · Adversity