Arabic · noun · The Heart & the Body

Halaakat

हलाकत
said ha-laa-kat
Meaning

Destruction and perdition, the ruin or undoing toward which a passion or grief may drive the heart.

Literally: destruction, ruin, perdition

Usage & notes

Halaakat is the state of being brought to ruin, perdition as a condition. In love's idiom the lover courts such undoing, the heart's destruction embraced as the price and proof of an all-consuming passion.