İrâde

İrâde names wanting, wishing and intention — the movement of desire toward a choice. Sami gives it another meaning too: the command or decree of a person of rank.

The same word moves in two directions, inward as will and outward as order.

Original one-of-a-kind artwork from the Mestûr collection.
Iranian ink on an original 125-year-old Kâmus-ı Türkî page.
Page 86 · Left column.

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