Urdu · noun · Nation, Faith & Society
Liberalism
लिबरलिज़्म
said LIB-er-a-lizm
also written: liberalism, liberaliyat, azad-khayali
Meaning
Liberalism; the modern Western creed of individual freedom and tolerance. Iqbal valued freedom but warned that liberalism cut loose from faith and community drifts toward atomism and unbelief.
See it in the verse
Liberalism in Iqbal’s couplets
Asar kare na kare, sun to le miri faryad
Nahin hai daad ka talib ye banda-e-azad
Nahin hai daad ka talib ye banda-e-azad
Whether it has an effect or not — at least hear my plea. This free soul is not asking for any applause.
Freedom · Courage · Selfhood
Tere azad bandon ki na ye duniya na wo duniya
yahan marne ki pabandi wahan jeene ki pabandi
yahan marne ki pabandi wahan jeene ki pabandi
Neither this world nor that one truly belongs to your free spirits — here there are restrictions on dying, there restrictions on living.
Freedom · Justice · Restlessness
Aazad mujh ko kar de o qaid karne wale
Main be-zaban hun qaidi tu chhod kar dua le
Main be-zaban hun qaidi tu chhod kar dua le
Set me free, you who keep me caged; I am a voiceless captive, release me and earn a blessing.
Freedom · Justice
Related words
ARABIC
Hurriyat
Liberty, freedom, the condition of being free.
ARABIC
Jamhuriyat
Democracy; popular rule.
ARABIC
La-Deeniyat
Secularism / irreligion; the divorce of life and politics from faith. Iqbal saw the separation of religion from the state as a peculiarly Western disease alien to Islam's vision of a unified life.