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Arabic · noun · Mind & Knowledge

Khyal

ख़याल
also written: Khayal
Meaning

Thought, idea, imagination or fancy; a notion in the mind.

How Iqbal uses it

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See it in the verse

Khyal 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

Fikr

Thought, reflection; also worry or concern.

ARABIC

Tasawwur

Imagination, conception, the forming of an image in the mind.

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