Arabic · noun · Faith & Sacred History
Amanat
अमानत
said a-maa-NAT
also written: amanat, amaanat, amana
Meaning
The divine trust; the burden of moral responsibility that humanity alone accepted from God.
Literally: trust, something held in safekeeping
Usage & notes
Amanat is a trust — what is placed in one's keeping to be returned or used faithfully. Iqbal extends the idea to the self and its gifts: life, talent, and freedom are a trust to be honoured by right use, not squandered or betrayed. He treats faithfulness to trust as a deep moral test, where keeping the amanat shows integrity and breaking it shows a self gone false.