Arabic · noun · Mind & Knowledge

Khayaal

ख़याल

said kha-yaal

Meaning

Thought, idea, fancy, mental image; also care or concern.

How Iqbal uses it

Khayaal ranges from a passing thought to the soaring poetic idea. Iqbal celebrates the lofty khayaal that lifts the self while warning against the idle daydream that drains its will.

See it in the verse

Khayaal in Iqbal’s couplets

Hayat kya hai khayal o nazar ki majzubi
Khudi ki maut hai andesha-ha-e-guna-gun

What is life? The absorbed focus of thought and vision; and scattered, many-coloured doubts are the death of selfhood.

Selfhood · Action · Self-Knowledge

Related words

ARABIC

Takhayyul

Imagination, the faculty of forming images and fancies.

ARABIC

Fikr

Thought, reflection; also worry or concern.

ARABIC

Tasawwur

Conception, mental image, the forming of an idea in the mind.

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