Word Meaning
सियह-बेहार
siyah-bihār
Meaning
black oceans or the vast ink of the seas
Detailed Meaning
A poetic compound denoting dark ocean waters invoked as boundless ink, directly alluding to the Quranic trope of all trees serving as pens and all seas as ink to record divine glory. In this verse, it emphasizes that even if all the oceans became black ink, they would still fall short of recording the attributes of God. It stands as an emblem of infinity and the inadequacy of mortal language.
Etymology
Persian 'siyāh' (black) combined with Arabic 'bihār' (plural of bahr, sea/ocean).
Usage
Used primarily in devotional verse (hamd and naat) as a rhetorical allusion (talmih) to convey the impossibility of enumerating the divine attributes.
Examples
Even if the black oceans were ink, the story of love would remain unfinished.
The pens of all trees broke before the ink of black oceans could dry.