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Zahid

ज़ाहिद
also written: zahidon
Meaning

An ascetic or abstinent devotee; in Urdu poetry, often the dry pietist foil to the lover of God.

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal, like Hafiz before him, sets the fervent lover against the cold, calculating zahid.

See it in the verse

Zahid in Iqbal’s couplets

Ye jannat mubarak rahe zahidon ko
Ki main aap ka samna chahta hun
Let the pious keep their paradise, and welcome to it — I want only to come face to face with You.
Love · Aspiration
Related words
ARABIC

Zuhd

Asceticism and renunciation of worldly attachments for the sake of the hereafter.

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