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.
Related words
PERSIAN
But
Idol; a figure of the beloved so beautiful as to be worshipped, and a symbol of beauty in the ghazal.
ARABIC
Shirk
The sin of associating partners with God; idolatry, the opposite of divine unity.
SANSKRIT
Somnaat
The famed Hindu temple of Shiva in Gujarat, used in Persian-Urdu poetry as the archetypal great idol-temple.