Sabr-o-shukr
Patience and gratitude; enduring hardship while thanking God.
Literally: patience and gratitude together
Sabr-o-shukr names the joined virtues of patient endurance and thankful recognition — bearing hardship steadily while gratefully honouring what one is given. Iqbal values their active forms: a patience that keeps striving and a gratitude shown in worthy effort, not the passive resignation that hides idleness behind pious words. Together they steady the self through both trial and blessing without dulling its will to act.
Sabr
Patient endurance; steadfast forbearance in hardship as a spiritual virtue.
Shukr
Gratitude; thankfulness to God for His blessings, counted among the stations of the path.
Qanaat
Contentment with little; the satisfaction that frees the heart from greed and want.
Istiqamat
Steadfastness and constancy; standing firm on the right course.