Arabic · noun · Iqbal's Emblems

Uqab

उक़ाब
said u-QAAB
also written: uqabi
Meaning

Eagle — close kin of the shaheen.

How Iqbal uses it

The eagle-spirit (“uqabi ruh”) that, once awake in the young, fixes its eyes on a destination beyond the sky. Iqbal uses it almost interchangeably with the falcon as a sign of the soaring, self-reliant soul.