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Tur

तूर
said toor
also written: Tur-e-Sina
Meaning

Mount Sinai, where Moses beheld the divine self-disclosure.

How Iqbal uses it

Tur is the Sinai of Moses, where the request for vision met the lightning of tajalli. Iqbal returns to this scene as the archetype of the soul's craving to behold God, and of the overwhelming nearness it seeks.

See it in the verse

Tur 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
ARABIC

Tajalli

Divine self-manifestation; a radiant disclosure or theophany.

PERSIAN

Deedar

Sight, vision; the beatific vision of God.

ARABIC

Noor

Light, especially radiant or sacred light.

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