Talk:Ishq

message: can somebody explians what ashq means? it has any connection with God?
:We need a sufi here, but I think the sense is that in falling in love you forget yourself, and in forgetting yourself you discover god. Haiduc 22:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: Szhaider, you've done a great job expanding this article! I added some italics, fixed some minor grammar errors, added the Urdu and Hindi transliteratios, discussed the derivation of the word in the introduction, and provided some references. I hope you like the additions. Thanks again. Khuda hafiz, AnupamTalk 05:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great article 

message: "Ïshq" can't possibly be derived from a word "äshiqa" - Arabic just doesn't work that way. (Arabic words are derived from roots made up of 3 consonants, with very vague and generalised meanings). I see that your source is actually talking about the derivation of the word as used in Urdu and Persian - but he's still wrong, as the word is indeed derived from Arabic, and as I said, Arabic words derive from consonantal roots, not from whole words. I suggest you consult Weber's Arabic-English dictionary for the true derivation and range of meanings (the range of meanings is important - one word or Arabic will usually translate into twenty or so of English - Weber lists the most common first). PiCo (talk) 16:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation of the word Ishq 

message: salam hope u will be fine  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.101.191.138 (talk) 20:10, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  love 

message: The list of tags on this article is surprising. Although an interesting article from the mystic's viewpoint, the article seems to be in a bad shape when complying to wiki's standards. Apart from the overall tone which is non-encyclopedic, the tags point out to the lack of references and verification. I also feel that content can also be added. I am going to work on this one as well. Others may help too. Pixarh (talk) 16:41, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving article 

message: this appears on the article List of ambient music artists but i am not sure why?-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 22:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of ambient music artists]] 

message: The page currently, as of this comment, claims that Ishq in Hindi means "lustless love". As a person who is fluent in both Hindi and Urdu, I find this unconvincing. In fact, I think the "lustlessness" is not an emotion that "ishq" evokes to me at all (and neither to my Hindi speaking roommate). We are both more convinced by the connotation of the "obsessive" love mentioned in the Urdu section. A quick example I can give of why this is the case is that I can't imagine I would tell my parents (also hindi/urdu speakers) that "mai aapse ishq karta hu". Instead, I'd tell them "mai aapse pyaar karta hu"–pyaar being the relatively lustless one. As such, for now, I've added a citation needed tag, but I suspect a larger re-write might be needed.
What further complicates this, and the way this section of the article is written, is that Hindi/Urdu can largely be considered as the same language with different formal registers. This means that while colloquial forms of the languages is practically the same "hindustani" language, they have different formal forms. That is, they might have some different words for formal applications such as words for democracy or for mathematical terms. However, with a word such as "ishq" frequently used colloquially I doubt the meaning changes very much, or even at all, between the two forms of the language. Perhaps this should be emphasized in the article–that it is "obsessive" love in both languages, and that it is used within Hindi often in the context of Bollywood, etc. IsfahanKaAasmaan (talk) 19:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ishq in Hindi