Urdu · noun · Mind & Knowledge
Psychology
मनोविज्ञान
said sy-KOL-o-jee
also written: psychology, ilm-un-nafs, nafsiyat, manovigyan
Meaning
Psychology, the modern science of mind ('ilm-un-nafs). Iqbal engaged Western psychology and mysticism alike in his account of religious experience and the structure of the self.
See it in the verse
Psychology in Iqbal’s couplets
Na ho naumeed, naumeedi zawal-e-ilm-o-irfan hai
Umeed-e-mard-e-momin hai Khuda ke razdanon mein
Umeed-e-mard-e-momin hai Khuda ke razdanon mein
Do not despair — despair is the downfall of knowledge and insight. The hope of a person of conviction stands among those who know the deepest secrets.
Hope · Youth · Courage
Khudi ho ilm se mohkam to ghairat-e-Jibril
Agar ho ishq se mohkam to soor-e-Israfil
Agar ho ishq se mohkam to soor-e-Israfil
A selfhood made firm by knowledge can rival the angel of revelation; a selfhood made firm by love can rival the trumpet that wakes the world.
Selfhood · Love · Action
Ilm mein bhi suroor hai lekin
Ye wo jannat hai jis mein hoor nahin
Ye wo jannat hai jis mein hoor nahin
There is a certain delight in knowledge too — but it is a paradise without companions.
Self-Knowledge · Love · Humility
Ishq ki tegh-e-jigar-dar uda li kis ne
Ilm ke haath mein khali hai niyam ai saqi
Ilm ke haath mein khali hai niyam ai saqi
Who has carried off love's brave, heart-piercing sword? Knowledge holds only an empty scabbard now.
Love · Action · Courage
Related words
PERSIAN
Khudi
Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.
URDU
Reconstruction
Iqbal's 'The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam' (1930), his major prose work in English engaging Bergson, Einstein, Whitehead and modern science to rethink Islamic philosophy.
ARABIC
Ilm-e-Jadid
'Modern knowledge / new science' — the empirical sciences of the contemporary West. Iqbal urged Muslims to acquire it as their own lost inheritance, not to be dazzled or enslaved by it.