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Til ka taad banaana

तिल का ताड़ बनाना

Meaning

To make a mountain out of a molehill; to exaggerate wildly.

Literally: 'to make a palm-tree from a sesame seed'

See it in the verse

Til ka taad banaana in Iqbal’s couplets

Khudi ka nasheman tere dil mein hai
Falak jis tarah aankh ke til mein hai

The nest of your selfhood is inside your own heart — the way the whole sky lives inside the pupil of an eye.

Selfhood · Self-Knowledge

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