Arabic · noun · The Heart & the Body

Iztiraar

इज़्तिरार
said iz-ti-raar
Meaning

Helpless compulsion and desperate constraint, the agitated state of a heart driven to the edge by need.

Literally: being compelled, helplessness

Usage & notes

Iztiraar is the anguished helplessness of one with no choice left, the desperate straits that wring a cry from the heart. In the mystic frame it is the broken neediness that turns the soul wholly toward God.