Persian · noun · Being & Non-Being

Khud-Faraamoshi

ख़ुद-फ़रामोशी
said khud-fa-raa-mo-shee
also written: Khud-faramoshi, khudfaramoshi, khud-faramoshi, khudfaramushi
Meaning

Self-forgetfulness, oblivion of one's own self.

Literally: self-forgetfulness, oblivion of one's own self

How Iqbal uses it

Khudfaramoshi is self-forgetfulness — the loss of awareness of one's own worth and powers. Iqbal treats it as a grave malady: a self that forgets itself drifts into imitation, servility, and decline, having lost the inward centre from which it should act. He diagnoses this self-oblivion as the hidden root of a community's subjugation, the opposite of the self-knowledge that quickens khudi.