Meaning
An ecstatic, paradoxical utterance overflowing from a mystic in a state of rapture, often seeming to breach orthodoxy.
Literally: overflowing, ecstatic outburst
Usage & notes
Iqbal interprets the great ecstatic sayings as the overflow of a self brimming with Divine consciousness, not as heresy.
Related words
ARABIC
Ana-al-Haqq
The ecstatic utterance I am the Truth, spoken by Hallaj, taken by his judges as blasphemy.
ARABIC
Wajd
Ecstasy, rapture; the overwhelming of the heart by divine emotion.
ARABIC
Sukr
Spiritual intoxication; in Sufi terminology, the ecstatic state of absorption in the Divine, contrasted with sobriety (sahw).