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Arabic · noun · Spirit & the Divine

Ihsan

एहसान
said ih-SAAN
also written: ehsaan
Meaning

Excellence in faith; to worship God as though seeing Him.

Literally: doing good, perfecting

See it in the verse

Ihsan in Iqbal’s couplets

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, belief, the conviction of the heart.

ARABIC

Islam

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

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