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Khauf-o-raja
ख़ौफ़-ओ-रजा
said khauf-o-ra-JAA
also written: khauf o raja
Meaning
Fear and hope together; the believer's balanced posture of dread of God's justice and hope in His mercy.
Literally: Arabic: fear (khauf) and hope (raja).
How Iqbal uses it
This classical pairing of dread and hope frames the believer's heart in Sufi ethics; Iqbal inherits it as the tensioned inner state that keeps the self neither despairing nor presumptuous.
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