Persian · noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Sarmaya

सरमाया

said sar-MAA-ya

also written: sarmaaya, capital, sarmaya, wealth

Meaning

Capital, accumulated wealth; the root of 'sarmayadari' (capitalism). In Iqbal's social poems the hoarded riches of the few wrung from the labour of the many.

See it in the verse

Sarmaya in Iqbal’s couplets

Yaqeen afrad ka sarmaya-e-tameer-e-millat hai
Yahi quvvat hai jo surat-gar-e-taqdeer-e-millat hai

The conviction of individuals is the capital that builds a community — this is the very force that sculpts a people's destiny.

Unity · Selfhood · Leadership

Related words

PERSIAN

Sarmayadari

Capitalism; rule of capital. Iqbal denounced it as a system in which a few hoard wealth wrung from the labour and blood of the many, and called the worker to rise against it.

PERSIAN

Mazdoor

A labourer, worker, wage-earner.

ARABIC

Maddiyat

Materialism; the doctrine that matter is all. Iqbal held it the root malady of modern Western civilization — vast in power over things, blind to spirit and the self.

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