Arabic · noun · Selfhood & Will
Jidd-o-jahd
जिद्द-ओ-जहद
said jidd-o-JAHD
also written: jidd o jahd, jad-o-jahad, Jadd-o-jahad
Meaning
Strenuous struggle, hard sustained effort against obstacles.
Literally: A doubling of jidd (earnestness) and jahd (exertion): utmost striving.
Usage & notes
Jadojahad is sustained struggle, the unremitting effort of striving toward a goal. It sits at the heart of Iqbal's ethic of life: existence itself is a contest, and the self grows only by ceaseless exertion against resistance. To stop striving, in his view, is to begin to die.
Related words
PERSIAN
Koshish
Effort, endeavour, the act of trying and exerting oneself.
ARABIC
Sa'i
Striving, exertion, earnest effort toward a goal.
ARABIC
Mehnat
Labour, toil, or hard effort.
ARABIC
Jihad
Struggle or striving, especially in the way of God; effort against evil, within or without.
ARABIC
Amal
Action; deeds, works, practice.
PERSIAN
Khudi
Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.