Arabic · noun · Character & Virtue

Takabbur

तकब्बुर
said ta-KAB-bur
also written: takabbar
Meaning

Pride, haughtiness, the act of magnifying oneself in arrogance.

Usage & notes

Takabbur is the vice of the swollen, self-worshipping ego, the very sin of Satan in Iqbal's reading; it is the counterfeit of true selfhood, all surface and no substance.