Arabic · noun · Spirit & the Divine

Ruh

रूह

said rooh

Meaning

Spirit, soul.

How Iqbal uses it

When the “eagle-spirit” (uqabi ruh) wakes in the young, they suddenly see their destination written in the skies. The ruh for Iqbal is not a passive resident of the body but a force that, once roused, demands altitude.

See it in the verse

Ruh in Iqbal’s couplets

Uqabi rooh jab bedar hoti hai jawanon mein
Nazar aati hai un ko apni manzil aasmanon mein

When the eagle's spirit awakens in the young, they begin to see their destination up among the skies.

Youth · The Falcon · Awakening

Related words

PERSIAN

Khudi

Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.

PERSIAN

Shaheen

The royal falcon.

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