Urdu · noun · Mind & Knowledge
Science
साइंस
said saa-INS
also written: science, sains, sayns
Meaning
Science (the English word as borrowed into Urdu); the empirical knowledge of nature whose mastery Iqbal pressed on the East, while insisting it be wedded to faith and not worshipped as an end.
Related words
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.
ARABIC
Hikmat
Wisdom; the deep design or rationale behind things.
ARABIC
Ilm-o-Hikmat
'Knowledge and wisdom / science and philosophy' — the combined intellectual achievement of modern civilization; in Iqbal a thing to be mastered and then animated by faith and love.