बे-दाद

Meaning

Injustice, cruelty, oppression, or tyranny, especially by the beloved.

Detailed Meaning

'Be-dad' combines the Persian privative prefix 'be-' with 'dad' (justice), denoting cruelty, oppression, or lawlessness. In classical poetry, it frequently designates the capricious and tormenting cruelty of the beloved or fate. In this couplet, it describes the very tyranny and cruelty in which the masochistic lover finds sublime pleasure.

Etymology

Persian: compound of 'bē-' (without) + 'dād' (justice, equity, gift).

Usage

A stock motif in ghazal poetry where the lover relishes or laments the beloved's tyrannical disregard for justice.

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