Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Darwin
डार्विन
said DAAR-win
also written: darvin, charles darwin, daarwin
Meaning
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist of evolution by natural selection; Iqbal accepted change and development in life but recast it as a spiritual, purposeful ascent of the self rather than blind mechanism.
Related words
ARABIC
Irtiqa
Evolution, ascent, upward development. Iqbal embraced a spiritual evolution of the self (khudi) climbing toward ever fuller life, distinct from Darwin's purposeless mechanism.
PERSIAN
Khudi
Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.
ARABIC
Ilm-e-Jadid
'Modern knowledge / new science' — the empirical sciences of the contemporary West. Iqbal urged Muslims to acquire it as their own lost inheritance, not to be dazzled or enslaved by it.