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Arabic · noun · Spirit & the Divine

Hudur

हुज़ूर
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also written: Huzur
Meaning

Spiritual presence, the heart's wakeful attendance in the presence of God.

Literally: presence, attendance

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal treasures hudur as the alert presence of a self fully awake before its Lord, the antithesis of heedlessness.

See it in the verse

Hudur in Iqbal’s couplets

Be-huzuri hai teri maut ka raaz
Zinda ho tu to be-huzur nahin
Absence from the present is the secret of your death; if you are truly alive, you are never absent.
Awakening · Self-Knowledge
Related words
ARABIC

Ghaflat

Heedlessness, negligence, forgetfulness of God.

ARABIC

Muraqaba

Sufi meditation, the watchful contemplative vigilance of the heart in the awareness of God.

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