बद-मस्त

Meaning

Deeply intoxicated, wildly drunk, tipsy, or sensuously heedless.

Detailed Meaning

In Persian and Urdu poetry, 'bad-mast' signifies someone so intensely drunk or captivated by wine and passion that they become completely reckless. In this couplet, it describes the beloved ('but', meaning idol) whose intoxicated, carefree holding of the mirror mirrors the lover's bleeding heart.

Etymology

Persian compound formed from 'bad' (bad, ill, excessively) and 'mast' (intoxicated, drunk).

Usage

Commonly employed in ghazals to praise the beloved's alluring, uninhibited intoxication or to depict an enraptured mystic.

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