Arabic · noun · Mind & Knowledge
Tadbeer
तदबीर
said tad-BEER
also written: tadbir, tadbeer
Meaning
A plan, measure, or contrivance to achieve an end.
Literally: planning; deliberate effort; management
Usage & notes
Planning and purposeful effort — human contrivance and the exercise of will, classically paired against taqdeer (destiny). Iqbal refuses to let tadbeer be crushed by fatalism: he holds that human striving genuinely matters and that the believer's deliberate, energetic action is itself a means by which destiny unfolds. The tension of tadbeer and taqdeer frames his philosophy of human freedom.
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