Meaning
Necessity of existence, the mode of being of that which cannot not exist, namely God.
Literally: necessity, obligation
Usage & notes
Iqbal grounds all contingent reality in the one necessary Being, the self-existent source on which every striving self ultimately leans.
Related words
ARABIC
Imkaan
Contingency, possibility; the contingent being of all that is not God.
ARABIC
Wajib-ul-Wujood
The Necessary Being, whose existence is self-grounded and uncaused; God in philosophical theology.
ARABIC
Mumkin
The contingent being, that whose existence is merely possible and derives from another.