Urdu Dictionary

Arabic · noun · The Heart & the Body

Junoon-e-shauq

जुनूँ-ए-शौक़

said ju-noon-e-shauq

also written: junoon-e-shauq, junun-e-shauq, junoon e shauq

Meaning

The madness of longing, the frenzied intensity of a desire that has overwhelmed reason.

Literally: the madness of ardent longing

How Iqbal uses it

Junoon-e-shauq is the frenzy of ardent desire — the consuming passion that drives the lover and seeker past all reasonable limits. Iqbal celebrates this rapturous longing as a creative power higher than cool calculation: it is the heat that dares the impossible and refuses to rest. He treats such ecstatic ardour as the engine of spiritual striving, the fire that propels the self toward its highest aims.

See it in the verse

Junoon-e-shauq in Iqbal’s couplets

Mana ki teri deed ke qabil nahin hoon main
Tu mera shauq dekh mera intizar dekh

Granted, I am not yet worthy of the sight of you — but look at my longing, look at how I wait.

Humility · Love · Aspiration

Ik junun hai ki ba-shaur bhi hai
Ik junun hai ki ba-shaur nahin

There is one madness that carries clear awareness; there is another madness that carries none.

Restlessness · Self-Knowledge · Action

Kabhi jo aawara-e-junun the vo bastiyon mein phir aa basenge
Barahna-paai vahi rahegi magar naya khaarzaar hoga

Those who once wandered in the wilderness of passion will come back and settle in the towns; the bare feet will be the same, but the field of thorns will be new.

Adversity · Restlessness · Courage

Sama sakta nahin pahna-e-fitrat mein mera sauda
Ghalat tha ai junun shayad tera andaza-e-sahra

My passion cannot be contained even in the vastness of nature; O madness, perhaps your measure of the desert was wrong.

Restlessness · Aspiration · Selfhood

Related words

Junoon

Madness, frenzy, ecstatic obsession.

Shauq

Ardor, eager longing, the keen desire that drives the lover toward the beloved.

Wala

Distracted ardour of love, the bewildered, absorbing passion that overwhelms the lover's heart.

Ishq

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

Soz

Burning; inner fire, fervour, pathos.

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