From:http://www.tara-arts.com/Download/jungli.htm In the middle of the sixth paragraph.


"Take the word “honour”. Individualized, even atomized
in modern English. But it also offers an approximate translation for the Urdu concept of
“izzat”. Izzat is familial, transmitted through generations, a treasure to be guarded
jealously; where the gain by one is the gain of all, and so too for loss. "