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Ihsaan

एहसान
said eh-saan
also written: Ihsan, Ehsaan, ihsan, ehsan
Meaning

The spiritual excellence of worshipping God as though one sees Him, the highest dimension of faith.

Literally: doing what is beautiful, perfection

How Iqbal uses it

The highest tier of religion in the famous Hadith of Gabriel: "to worship God as though you see Him, and if you see Him not, He nevertheless sees you." Ihsaan is the perfection of faith into living, beautiful God-consciousness. Iqbal's whole project of the realized self resonates with this ideal of doing all things in the felt presence of God.

See it in the verse

Ihsaan in Iqbal’s couplets

Utha na sheeshagaran-e-farang ke ehsaan
Sifaal-e-Hind se meena o jaam paida kar
Do not accept the favours of the West's glassmakers — from the humble clay of India, fashion your own goblet and cup.
Selfhood · Freedom · Action
Utha na sheesha-garaan-e-firang ke ehsaan
Safaal-e-Hind se mina-o-jaam paida kar
Do not be indebted to the glassmakers of the foreign land — fashion your goblet and cup from the clay of your own soil.
Selfhood · Freedom · Action
Related words
ARABIC

Iman

Faith; the heart's assent to and trust in God, His prophets, and the unseen.

ARABIC

Islam

Submission to the will of God; the faith revealed through Prophet Muhammad.

ARABIC

Taqwa

God-consciousness; the reverent awareness of God that guards the soul from wrongdoing.

ARABIC

Mushahada

Direct spiritual witnessing or contemplative vision of the Divine reality.

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