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Takhleeq-e-Khudi

तख़लीक़-ए-ख़ुदी

said takh-leeq-e-khu-dee

also written: takhleeq e khudi, takhleeqe khudi, takhliq-e-khudi

Meaning

The creation of the self; the active forging and building-up of selfhood, a key Iqbalian idea.

Literally: takhleeq (creation) + khudi (selfhood)

See it in the verse

Takhleeq-e-Khudi in Iqbal’s couplets

Khudi ko kar buland itna ki har taqdeer se pehle
Khuda bande se khud pooche, bata teri raza kya hai

Raise your selfhood so high that, before issuing every decree of destiny, God Himself asks you: tell me, what is your wish?

Selfhood · Courage

Ho agar khudnigar-o-khudgar-o-khudgir khudi
Ye bhi mumkin hai ki tu maut se bhi mar na sake

If your selfhood becomes self-seeing, self-making and self-possessed, it is even possible that not even death can make you die.

Selfhood · Self-Knowledge

Khudi mein doob ja ghafil, ye sirr-e-zindagani hai
Nikal kar halqa-e-shaam-o-sahar se javedan ho ja

Dive into your selfhood, O heedless one — this is the secret of life. Step out of the ring of evening and morning, and become everlasting.

Selfhood · Self-Knowledge · Awakening

Khudi kya hai raaz-e-darun-e-hayat
Khudi kya hai bedaari-e-kaayenat

What is selfhood? The secret hidden inside life. What is selfhood? The waking-up of the whole universe.

Selfhood · Self-Knowledge · Awakening

Khudi ka nasheman tere dil mein hai
Falak jis tarah aankh ke til mein hai

The nest of your selfhood is inside your own heart — the way the whole sky lives inside the pupil of an eye.

Selfhood · Self-Knowledge

Khudi ho ilm se mohkam to ghairat-e-Jibril
Agar ho ishq se mohkam to soor-e-Israfil

A selfhood made firm by knowledge can rival the angel of revelation; a selfhood made firm by love can rival the trumpet that wakes the world.

Selfhood · Love · Action

Related words

Takhleeq

Creation, the act of bringing into being; creative making.

Khudi

Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.

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