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Deedar

दीदार
said dee-daar
also written: Deedar-e-Haqq
Meaning

Sight, vision; the beatific vision of God.

How Iqbal uses it

Deedar is the longed-for vision of the Divine, the seeing of the Beloved face to face. Iqbal makes this craving for deedar a mark of the awakened self, restless until it beholds what it loves.

See it in the verse

Deedar in Iqbal’s couplets

Aaeen-e-jawan-mardan haq-goi-o-be-baaki
Allah ke sheron ko aati nahin rubaahi
The code of the brave is to speak the truth and to be fearless — the lions of God do not know the ways of the fox.
Courage · Justice · Selfhood
Related words
ARABIC

Tur

Mount Sinai, where Moses beheld the divine self-disclosure.

ARABIC

Tajalli

Divine self-manifestation; a radiant disclosure or theophany.

ARABIC

Wisaal

Union, meeting; mystical union with the Beloved or with God.

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