बे-कराँ

Meaning

Boundless, shoreless, limitless, or immense; having no edge or boundary.

Detailed Meaning

In classical Urdu poetry, 'be-karān' signifies an expanse devoid of shores or horizons, most commonly evoking an infinite ocean. In this couplet, it qualifies 'muheet' (the all-encompassing sea), setting the immense, boundless nature of the Divine against the finite trickle of the mortal soul ('aabju'). It captures the mystic's tension between being utterly separate from or submerged into limitless transcendence.

Etymology

Persian compound of the negative prefix 'be-' (without) and 'karān' (shore, coast, edge, boundary).

Usage

Commonly used in Sufi and reflective ghazals to contrast the infinite Divine or cosmic reality with finite human frailty.

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