Arabic · noun · Faith & Sacred History
Nur-e-Muhammadi
नूर-ए-मुहम्मदी
said NOOR-e mu-HAM-ma-di
Meaning
The Muhammadan Light, the primordial spiritual reality from which creation is said to flow.
Literally: the Muhammadan Light
How Iqbal uses it
Iqbal venerates the Prophetic reality as the spiritual centre of history, the light whose perfection the mard-e-momin strives to mirror.
See it in the verse
Nur-e-Muhammadi in Iqbal’s couplets
Guzar ja aql se aage ki ye noor
Charagh-e-raah hai, manzil nahin hai
Charagh-e-raah hai, manzil nahin hai
Move on past the intellect — for this light is a lamp for the road, not the destination itself.
Self-Knowledge · Aspiration · Love
Dil-e-bina bhi kar khuda se talab
Aankh ka nuur dil ka nuur nahin
Aankh ka nuur dil ka nuur nahin
Ask also for a seeing heart; the light of the eye is not the light of the heart.
Self-Knowledge · Awakening
Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan
The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.
Awakening · Hope · Self-Knowledge