Arabic · noun · Spirit & the Divine

Insan-e-Kamil

इंसान-ए-कामिल
said in-SAAN-e KAA-mil
also written: insan-e-kamil, insan e kamil, insan-i-kamil
Meaning

The Perfect Man, the fully realised human who mirrors all the divine attributes.

Literally: the Perfect / Complete Human

How Iqbal uses it

The fully realized human being in whom the divine attributes are most completely reflected — a classical Sufi ideal associated with Ibn Arabi and al-Jili. Iqbal recasts this figure as dynamic and this-worldly: not a saint withdrawn into contemplation but the active self who builds, leads and bends destiny, khudi brought to its highest pitch. In his poetry the Perfect Human becomes the goal of human evolution and is closely fused with the mard-e-momin.