Arabic · noun · Nation, Faith & Society
Maddiyat
मद्दियत
said mad-di-YAT
also written: maddiyyat, materialism, maadiyat, materialiyat
Meaning
Materialism; the doctrine that matter is all. Iqbal held it the root malady of modern Western civilization — vast in power over things, blind to spirit and the self.
Literally: matter-ness
Related words
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.
PERSIAN
Tahzeeb-e-Hazir
'Modern / present-day civilization' — the contemporary Western order. Iqbal's standing critique: brilliant in science and machinery, hollow at the centre, having lost God and the soul.
ARABIC
Rooh
The spirit breathed into man by God; the principle of life.