Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Husn-e-taaleel
हुस्न-ए-तालील
said husn-e-taa-leel
also written: Husn-e-taleel
Meaning
A rhetorical device that assigns a fanciful, poetic cause to a real phenomenon.
Literally: beauty of causation
How Iqbal uses it
An elegant figure in which the poet invents an imaginative reason for a natural fact, prized across Persian and Urdu verse.
See it in the verse
Husn-e-taaleel in Iqbal’s couplets
Ishq bhi ho hijab mein husn bhi ho hijab mein
Ya to khud aashkar ho ya mujhe aashkar kar
Ya to khud aashkar ho ya mujhe aashkar kar
Love is veiled and beauty too is veiled; either reveal yourself, or make me one who can be revealed.
Love · Self-Knowledge · Restlessness
Miri mashshatgi ki kya zarurat husn-e-mani ko
Ki fitrat khud-ba-khud karti hai laale ki hina-bandi
Ki fitrat khud-ba-khud karti hai laale ki hina-bandi
What need has true beauty of meaning for my adorning hand? Nature, all on its own, paints the tulip red.
Self-Knowledge · Humility · Action