Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Libas

लिबास

also written: Libaas

Meaning

Garment, dress, or outward guise.

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal asks Reality to appear at least once in the libas of the metaphorical world, the garment of the senses, since the unveiled Truth is otherwise too dazzling to behold.

See it in the verse

Libas in Iqbal’s couplets

Kabhi ai haqeeqat-e-muntazir nazar aa libas-e-majaz mein
Ki hazaron sajde tarap rahe hain meri jabeen-e-niyaz mein

O long-awaited Truth, show yourself once in the dress of the visible — for a thousand prostrations are stirring restlessly on my brow of longing.

Love · Aspiration · Restlessness

Related words

ARABIC

Majaz

Metaphor; the figurative — the world of appearances (the opposite of haqeeqat).

PERSIAN

Parda

Veil, curtain, screen; concealment.

ARABIC

Hijaab

Veil, screen; that which conceals the Divine from the seeker.

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