Arabic · noun · Being & Non-Being

Ruh-e-Azam

रूह-ए-आज़म

said ROOH-e AA-zam

Meaning

The Supreme Spirit, the universal soul or first created spirit in mystical cosmology.

Literally: the greatest spirit

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal alludes to the universal spirit as the grand life-current, yet centres his thought on the individual self that participates in and asserts that life.

See it in the verse

Ruh-e-Azam 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

ARABIC

Ruh

Spirit, soul.

ARABIC

Nur-e-Muhammadi

The Muhammadan Light, the primordial spiritual reality from which creation is said to flow.

ARABIC

Aql-e-Awwal

The First Intellect, the first emanation from God in Neoplatonic-Islamic cosmology.

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