Arabic · noun · The Heart & the Body

Qalb

क़ल्ब
said qalb
Meaning

Heart (the Arabic word; often the spiritual heart).

How Iqbal uses it

The organ of inner life paired with vision. He pictures “the life of heart and sight” at dawn in the desert, fed by streams of light — qalb and nazar together, feeling and seeing, are how the self truly lives.