Urdu · noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Renaissance

रेनेसां

said REN-e-sahns

also written: renaissance, renaisans, nashat-e-sania, revival

Meaning

The European Renaissance; the rebirth of art and learning that launched the modern West. Iqbal pointed to it as he called for a parallel intellectual reawakening within Islam.

See it in the verse

Renaissance in Iqbal’s couplets

Fareb-khurda-e-manzil hai karwan warna
Ziyada rahat-e-manzil se hai nashat-e-rahil

The caravan is deceived by the idea of a destination — otherwise, the joy of setting out is greater than the comfort of arrival.

Restlessness · Aspiration · Action

Related words

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

Ijtihad

Independent reasoning to derive judgements in Islamic law; striving of the disciplined mind.

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.

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