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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
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
Related words
ARABIC

Zulmat

Darkness, gloom; figuratively ignorance and spiritual blindness.

PERSIAN

Taariki

Darkness, obscurity, gloom.

URDU

Ghup

Pitch-dark, completely dark (often ghup andhera).

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