Allama Iqbal : The poet of the East
It is wrong to assume that Iqbal is the poet of Muslims or he belongs to Urdu literature alone. Iqbal transcends all boundaries. You cannot put him in any category. Like all great poets, he belongs to the whole mankind.
‘Sare Jahan se achcha Hindustan Hamara, Hum bulbulen hain iski yeh gulsitan hamara.’
MY INDIA is the best amongst all the nations of the world. We are its nightingales and this is our garden. That’s how ‘the poet of East - Allama Sheikh Mohammed Iqbal’ showered his unlimited love for his country. - India.
‘Khake witan ka humko har zarra devta hai” (Each dust particle of my motherland is god to me).
Sach keh doon aye Brahmin gar tu bura na mane. (Should I speak the truth Oh Brahmin if you aren’t offended?)
Aa ek naya shiwali hum phir se yan bana de’n. (Let us make new temples again)
Shakti bhi shanty bhi bhakto ke geet me hai. (There is strength and peace in the hymns of worshippers)
Dharti ke waasiyon ki mukti preet me hai. (Peace of inhabitants of the world lies in love)
MULLAHS HAVE issued a fatwa on Iqbal for daring to see this dream for a new India. It is wrong to assume that Iqbal is the poet of Muslims or he belongs to Urdu literature alone. Iqbal transcends all boundaries. You cannot put him in any category. Like all great poets, he belongs to the whole mankind.
Allama Iqbal was born in Sialkot on November 9, 1877. He learned Arabic and traditional eastern education under the guidance of famous scholar Meer Hasan. After MA in Philosophy, he received Ph D from Cambridge and German University. After passing the examination of Barrister, for some time he worked as a professor of Arabic in London University. In 1908, he returned to India and became professor in Lahore. One and half years later he started practicing law. British government bestowed the title of 'Sir' on him in 1922. In 1926, on the invitation of Madras University, he delivered series of 6 lectures on Islam. He was appointed as a member of Punjab Legislative Council. He presided over All India Muslim League in 1930. In 1931, he represented India in second 'Round Table Conference'. In 1932, on Shaah of Afghanistan’s invitation he participated in welcome celebration in Kabul, along with Syed Sulaiman Nadwi and Sir Ross Masood. He died on April 21, 1938.
Iqbal, like so many Muslim intellectuals was disillusioned with the policies of Congress and suggested a federation of Muslim states to protect the culture and civilisation of Muslims. The purpose of this article is not to re-open the old controversial chapters of history as Allama Iqbal had died long before independence in 1938. The least I can say is he loved India with bottom of his heart. That he belongs to Pakistan is travesty of truth. “This is not the whole Truth,” said Professor Abdul Haq, an eminent Urdu critic. “Iqbal foresaw a federal structure for a free India, in which a Muslim-dominated north-western region could be a cultural unit like many others,” he said. As far as the idea of Pakistan is concerned, Iqbal denied that he was the originator of this idea. “Iqbal has clearly denied this in his letters to Raghib Hussain. People don’t talk about these letters since they don’t favor their point of view,” said Dr Haq.
Dr Abdul Haq said that Iqbal is the most misunderstood poet of the 20th century. “We must look at Iqbal in totality if we want to understand him,” he said. Iqbal’s tragedy was that his poetry was used by different groups to serve their own interests. His poetry had so many facets that he seemed to assume different roles in different phases of his poetry: he was a staunch nationalist, a vocal communist, an advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity, a humanist, a believer in Islamic revivalism, a freedom fighter, and an advocate of international brotherhood. No poet in Urdu, and I’m sure in any other Indian language too, has shed as many tears on India’s misery and colonial captivity.
Uth ke ab daore jahan ka aur hi andaz hai
Mashroq-o-maghrib me tere daur ka aghaz hai
“Get up now that the style of the world has changed.It is the beginning of your age in the East and West.”
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.Whatever we get from both prose and poetry of Dr.Iqbal(Alaihi rahma) preaches and strongly advocates humanism and its importance in sustaining humanist world order.The deeper you delve in his philosophy of humanism more the pearls and gems come your way ;yet it needs the art and intellect to identify and pick them to adore our social set up and thinking without any bias or prejudice.
My earlier comment suffered some typographical short comings; hence this refresher
.Whatever we get from the prose and poetry of Dr.Iqbal(alaihi rahma),humanism and its importance in sustaining the world order.There are only pearls and gems to pick from the ocean of his works and adore our social set up and thinking.
."Ghulami me kaam aati hai na Shamshirein na Tadbirein. Jo ho Zoq-e-Yaqeen to kat Jaati Zanjeerein. Koi andaza kar saktha hai uske zor-e-bazu ka, Nigah-e-Mard-e-Momin se badal jaati hai Taqdeerein"
Manfi'at ek hai iss qaum ki, nuksaan bhi ek
ek hai sabka nabi,deen bhi, eemaan bhi ek
harm-e-paak bhi, allah bhi, qur'aan bhi ek
kuchh badi baat thi hoti, hote jo mussalmaan bhi ek
.Well, what kind of person Iqbal was? You hardly know that and you cannot make him prisoner of any "-ism". Apparently, you are making him the
prisoner of "Nationalism".
"Tere Azaad bandon ki na yeh duniya na woh duniya, Yahan marne ki pabandi wahan jeene ki pabandi".
To say Iqbal wouldn't be happy to see a "watan" of his dream is a great blunder in studying Iqbal.
"Ek ho Muslim, Haram ki pasbani ke liye Neel ke sahil se lekar tabakhan ke kashgar" do you even understand the vision behind this verse?
"Bazu tera TAWHEED ki quwwat se qawi hai, ISLAM hai des tera, tu Mustafawi hai".
Iqbal doesn't belong to anybody but Allah. A Poet, a Philosopher,an Idealogue and a Visionary, his message was to revive the Muslim ummah
Get your facts right bro and make a deeper study of this Legend. Living in India, a Muslim should stand for truth but Sovereinty and Supremacy is only due to ALLAH and not to any piece of Land of his creation.
"And hold fast, all of you together to the Rope of Allah, and be not divided among yourselves (Qur'an 3:103)".
"Such is your congregation - one congregation - and I am your Lord; you shall reverence Me. [Qur'an 23:53]".
May Allah guide and Protect this Ummah.
.Absolutely rubbish!! Iqbal might have advocated in his early stages of poetry, but his entire focus was on the Muslim Ummah and its revival. In most of the poetry that he wrote after 1905 was pan-islamic and whenever he referred to "watan", he meant Muslim Ummah. The author conceals the verses where Iqbal strongly rejected "Nationalism" ex: "In taaza khudaon me sabse bada watan hai. Jo pairhan hai iska woh mazhab ka kafan hai."
I would also like to quote some the finest verses of the legend Iqbal "Aye LA ILAH ke waris baaqi nahi tujhme guftar-e-dilbaran, kirdaar-e-qahiran. Teri nigah se dil seenon me kaanpte the khoya gaya hai tera jazb-e-qalandarana". Time to wake up my Muslim brothers!
Respected Mujahid Saheb,
I read your comments with deep consterantion. Iqbal was not the kind of a person who would have been happy to see a so-called watan of his dreams in shambles. "Ae aabrud Ganga woh din hai yad tujhko. Utra tere kinare jab caravan hamara." I would never like to make him a prisoner of parochialism. May be you look for a different Iqbal. Anyway, thanks for your comments.
.Bahut Sahi likha hai Naeem bhai. Allama Iqbal saare jehan ke shayer thaey aur yek jehati ke alambardaar.
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