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Toor

तूर

said TOOR

also written: Tur, Tur-e-Sina, Mount Sinai

Meaning

Mount Sinai, where Moses received revelation and beheld the divine theophany.

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal returns again and again to Toor as the mountain of Moses where the unbearable divine light blazed forth. He uses it as the emblem of a single overwhelming glimpse of the divine, often to say the lover's heart holds a fire that even Sinai could not bear.

See it in the verse

Toor in Iqbal’s couplets

Siina raushan ho to hai soz-e-sukhan ain-e-hayat
Ho na raushan to sukhan marg-e-davam ai saqi

If the heart is lit within, the fire in one's words is life itself; if it is unlit, those words are a lasting death.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Seena

The breast, the chest — where breath and inner fire dwell.

ARABIC

Musa

The prophet Moses, who received revelation on Sinai and confronted Pharaoh's tyranny.

ARABIC

Kaleem

The one to whom God spoke; an epithet of Moses, the interlocutor of God.

ARABIC

Tajalli

Divine self-manifestation; a radiant disclosure or theophany.

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