Arabic · noun · People & Roles
Naaseh
नासेह
said NAA-seh
also written: nasih, naasih, naaseh
Meaning
An adviser or admonisher; the well-meaning counsellor who warns the lover against love.
Literally: the counsellor; well-meaning adviser
Usage & notes
The naaseh is the earnest adviser who keeps counselling the lover to give up his ruinous love and behave — and in the ghazal he is gently mocked as one who has never tasted what he warns against. His prudent advice is wind to the lover whose heart is already given. Iqbal enlists the naaseh among the sober voices (zahid, waaiz, muhtasib) whose cautious wisdom the love-drunk self rightly ignores.