Arabic · noun · Character & Virtue

Hausla

हौसला
said HAUS-la
also written: hausla, hosla, hauslah
Meaning

Courage, spirit, ambition and the capacity to bear or aspire.

Literally: spirit, courage, large-heartedness of will

Usage & notes

Hausla is the inner capacity to bear and to dare — the spaciousness of heart that can hold great hopes and great trials. Iqbal links it to the soul's ambition: a person of large hausla aims high and does not shrink from the magnitude of the task. He treats a generous, undaunted spirit as the soil in which both courage and aspiration grow.