Arabic · noun · Character & Virtue

Haya

हया

said ha-YAA

also written: hayaa

Meaning

Modesty, bashful sense of shame, the inner restraint that recoils from the unseemly.

How Iqbal uses it

Haya is the dignified modesty the tradition prizes as a branch of faith; in Iqbal's moral vision it guards the self's honour and tempers boldness with grace.

See it in the verse

Haya in Iqbal’s couplets

Haya nahin hai zamane ki aankh mein baaqi
Khuda kare ki jawani teri rahe be-daagh

No sense of shame is left in the eye of the age; may God keep your youth unstained.

Youth · Self-Knowledge

Related words

PERSIAN

Sharm

Shame, bashfulness, the sense of modesty that holds one back from disgrace.

ARABIC

Iffat

Chastity, purity, moral continence and abstinence from the forbidden.

ARABIC

Ghairat

A fierce sense of honour, self-respect, and zealous protectiveness over what one holds sacred.

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