Arabic · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Ahd

अहद
said AHD
also written: ahad, ahd, 'ahd, ahad-pledge
Meaning

An epoch or era; also a covenant or pledge.

Literally: Arabic 'ahd: a time period; a binding promise.

Usage & notes

Ahd is a covenant — the solemn pledge that binds a person to a promise or to God. Iqbal weights the keeping of one's covenant heavily: faith itself is figured as a primordial pledge, and to break one's word is to fracture the self that gave it. He treats fidelity to covenant as a load-bearing virtue, the thread on which both personal honour and communal trust hang.