Arabic · noun · Selfhood & Will

Ikhtiyar

इख़्तियार

Meaning

Free will, choice, discretion; the power to choose one's course.

Usage & notes

Iqbal insists on human ikhtiyar, free choice, as the ground of moral striving against fatalism.

Related words

An authorised agent or attorney holding power of attorney.

Compulsion, determinism; the doctrine that human acts are foreordained.