Meaning
The idol-making father (or guardian) of Abraham in the Quranic narrative, the archetypal maker of idols.
Usage & notes
Iqbal sets Aazar the idol-maker against his son Abraham the idol-breaker as a contrast of dead craft and living faith. The figure embodies the inherited idolatry that the awakened conscience must shatter.
Related words
PERSIAN
But
Idol; a figure of the beloved so beautiful as to be worshipped, and a symbol of beauty in the ghazal.
ARABIC
Ibrahim
The prophet Abraham, revered in Islam as the patriarch of monotheism and the breaker of idols.
PERSIAN
Butkhaana
An idol-temple; in mystic verse the shrine of beauty where the lover worships the beloved's form.