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Zulmat

ज़ुल्मत

said ZUL-mat

Meaning

Darkness, gloom; figuratively ignorance and spiritual blindness.

Literally: Arabic zulmah: thick darkness.

How Iqbal uses it

Zulmat is the darkness of ignorance, servitude, and the decline of the community, the night that the light of selfhood and faith is summoned to dispel.

See it in the verse

Zulmat in Iqbal’s couplets

Jinhen main dhundhta tha aasmanon mein zaminon mein
Wo nikle mere zulmat-khana-e-dil ke makinon mein

Those I searched for across the skies and the earth turned out to dwell in the darkened house of my own heart.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Taariki

Darkness, obscurity, gloom.

URDU

Andhera

Darkness, the absence of light.

ARABIC

Noor

Light, especially radiant or sacred light.

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