तवहहुमात

Meaning

Illusions, superstitious doubts, baseless fancies, or imaginary fears.

Detailed Meaning

In Urdu poetics and philosophical verse, 'tawahhumat' signifies the internal web of doubts, superstitions, and false mental constructs. In this couplet, it represents the deceptive intellectual mazes and subjective fallacies in which even a penetrating vision can become entrapped.

Etymology

Arabic (plural of 'tawahhum', from the root w-h-m, relating to imagination, suspicion, or delusion).

Usage

Commonly invoked in philosophical ghazals to contrast sterile intellectual doubts and superstition with direct intuitive certainty (yaqeen).

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