Arabic · name · Faith & Sacred History
Laat-o-Manaat
लात-ओ-मनात
said LAAT-o-ma-NAAT
also written: Lat-o-Manat, Laat, Manaat
Meaning
Al-Lat and Manat, two pre-Islamic Arabian goddesses worshipped as idols at the dawn of Islam.
Usage & notes
Iqbal invokes Laat and Manaat as the false gods that Islam swept away, then extends them to the new idols of his own age, race, nation, and reason itself. He warns that the modern mind has only exchanged old idols for fresh ones.