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Til ka taad banana

तिल का ताड़ बनाना
Meaning

To exaggerate a small thing enormously.

Literally: to make a palm tree of a sesame seed

See it in the verse

Til ka taad banana 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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