Urdu Dictionary

Arabic · noun · Faith & Sacred History

Ishq-e-Haqiqi

इश्क़-ए-हक़ीक़ी

said ISHQ-e ha-qee-QEE

also written: eshq-e-haqeeqi, Ishq-e-haqeeqi

Meaning

True or divine love, love directed toward God as the only real beloved.

Literally: the real/true love (love of the Divine)

How Iqbal uses it

Ishq-e-haqiqi is true love — love directed at the Real, at God, as opposed to ishq-e-majazi, the metaphorical love of a human beloved. The Sufi teaching holds that the metaphorical love is a bridge: the heart learns to adore by loving a human face, then passes through it to the divine Beauty it reflects. For Iqbal this true love is the supreme power of the soul, the passion that joins the self to the infinite and makes it capable of the impossible.

See it in the verse

Ishq-e-Haqiqi in Iqbal’s couplets

Sitaron se aage jahan aur bhi hain
Abhi ishq ke imtihan aur bhi hain

Beyond the stars there are worlds yet — there are still more trials of love to come.

Aspiration · Love · Restlessness

Dayar-e-ishq mein apna maqam paida kar
Naya zamana, naye subh-o-sham paida kar

In the realm of love, create your own standing — bring a new age into being, new mornings and new evenings of your own.

Aspiration · Action · Love

Tere ishq ki intiha chahta hun
Meri sadgi dekh kya chahta hun

I long for the very limit of Your love — look at my simplicity, see what I dare to ask.

Love · Aspiration · Restlessness

Ishq dam-e-Jibreel ishq dam-e-Mustafa
Ishq Khuda ka Rasool ishq Khuda ka kalaam

Love is the breath of Gabriel, love the breath of the Prophet; love is the messenger of God, love is the Word of God.

Love · Aspiration

Mard-e-Khuda ka amal ishq se sahib-e-firogh
Ishq hai asl-e-hayat maut hai is par haraam

The deeds of the man of God shine with love; love is the essence of life, and death is forbidden to touch it.

Love · Aspiration · Action

Tere ishq ki inteha chahta hoon
Meri sadgi dekh, kya chahta hoon

I long for the very furthest reach of your love — look at my simplicity, look at what I dare to ask for.

Love · Aspiration

Related words

Ishq

Love — passionate, all-consuming love, whether for the divine or the human.

Ishq-e-majazi

Metaphorical love — love of a human beloved, held to be a bridge toward love of the Divine.

Husn-o-ishq

Beauty and love; the eternal pairing of the beautiful beloved and the loving lover, a governing theme of the ghazal.

Mehboob

'Beloved', 'darling' — one who is loved.

Husn-e-azal

Eternal, pre-eternal beauty — beauty as it exists from the beginningless beginning.

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