Urdu Dictionary
Arabic · noun · Mind & Knowledge

Takhayyul

तख़य्युल
said ta-khay-yul
Meaning

Imagination, the faculty of forming images and fancies.

How Iqbal uses it

Takhayyul is the imaginative faculty that Iqbal, the poet, prized as a creative power near to the divine. Rightly disciplined it builds worlds; left idle it dissolves into empty fancy.

See it in the verse

Takhayyul in Iqbal’s couplets

Napaid tere bahr-e-takhayyul ke kinare
Pahunchenge falak tak teri aahon ke sharare
The shores of your sea of imagination are nowhere to be found; the sparks of your longing will reach all the way to the sky.
Aspiration · Restlessness · Hope
Related words
ARABIC

Khayaal

Thought, idea, fancy, mental image; also care or concern.

ARABIC

Tasawwur

Conception, mental image, the forming of an idea in the mind.

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