74th death anniversary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Without seeing implementation of his dream of a separate Muslim homeland, Shair-e-Mushriq (Poet of the East) and Muffakir-e-Pakistan (Inceptor of Pakistan) Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal left this world almost seven and half decades ago.

Today, the nation is marking 74^th death anniversary of Allama Mohammed Iqbal with respect and honor.

Born in Sialkot in British India on November 9, 1877, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal gave the vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India, leading them to the creation of Pakistan.

He was one of the most prominent leaders of the All India Muslim League who encouraged the creation of a ‘state in north-western India for Muslims’ in his historical 1930 presidential address.

Iqbal completed his education in England and Germany and started law practice, but concentrated primarily on writing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy and religion. His famous collections of poetry include Zarb-e-Kalim, Bang-e-Dara and Bal-e-Jibril.

The great poet was quoted in a book by Sayyid Nazir Niazi as saying “Muslim League can succeed only on account of Jinnah. Now none but Jinnah is capable of leading the Muslims”.

He was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of the Islamic civilization across the world, but specifically in South East Asia.

In his poetic career, spanning some forty years, Allama Iqbal had imbibed, approved, applauded and commended a great many ideas, which occupy various positions along the spectrum at three different levels, the philosophic, social and political.

Therefore, at one time or another, he commended or denounced nationalism, propagated pan-Islamism and advocated multi-nationalism in Islam, admiring the West for its ceaseless and wide-ranging activities, energy and initiative but was disenchanted by its materialism, cut-throat competition and values, condemned capitalism, while preaching a kind of vague socialism and applauded the East, its spiritualism and its concern for the soul but upbraided it for its docility, passivity, resignation and lack of vision.

The idea of Perfect Man, Mard-e-Momin, Mard-e-Khuda, Sheikh, Kamil, Faqir, Band-e-Haq, Qalander and Banda-e-Hur are not unfamiliar. Maulana Rumi was probably the first Muslim thinker who presented a complete picture of a Perfect Man.

On April 21, 1938, the great Muslim poet-philosopher and champion of the Muslim cause, passed away.

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