Arabic · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Zawaal

ज़वाल
said za-WAAL
also written: zawal
Meaning

Decline, the sun's passing the meridian toward setting; downfall, decay.

Literally: Arabic zawal: the moving away of the sun from its zenith.

How Iqbal uses it

Zawaal is both the sun's descent and the decline of nations and selves; Iqbal warns that whatever rises by borrowed light must set, and calls the self to a glory that knows no zawaal.