Re: Moral Bankruptcy of West - Iqbal's prophesies proved True
farids...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> Iqbal had predicted that the western civilization will commit suicide
> with its own hands. Now look at the following news, where west can be
> seen killing itself one by one.
>
Was this "Allamah" Iqbal dude a prophet? If this one-pubic-hair
namesake in Karachi believes that, then he is certainly not a Muslim.
And if he doesn't, then he shouldn't swear by the prophetic powers of
this charlatan "Allamah". We are all aware of the "Allamah's"
sycophantic eulogies to Queen Victoria, to King George V, and (in the
wake of the infamous Rowlatt Act) to the benefits of being part of the
British Empire.
One-pubic-hair of Karachi knows where the "Allamh" really stands - in
a Bangladeshi newsgroup, this one-pubic-hair was given a sound
thrashing and an education on where the charlatan "Allamah" stands as
a poet with respect to great patriotic poets like Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Let me quote from a rebuttal in a Bangladeshi newsgroup that gave this
one-pubic-hair a taste of the truth about his charlatan "Allamah":
Particularly shameful was the "allamah's" nexus with the Punjab
Governor, Michael O'Dwyer of Jalianwalabag infame.
It is downright puerile of one-pubic-hair to turn a blind eye to the
so-called Allamah's servile sycophantic poems eulogizing the British
Empire, the Empress and the Emperor. These are published poems.
(For the reader's reference, I'll append this post with some excerpts
from Iqbal's "loyalist" poems, so that they can judge for themselves
where one-pubic-hair's mentality" is coming from.
Iqbal, the stooge of British imperialism, agreed to be knighted in
1922 at the height of the Khilafat movement. Here's a quote
representative of the reaction of true nationalists:
"Pity! Iqbal stooped to knighthood from an Allama. He used to be the
crown of the community. Iqbal has now become a knight of the British
crown." - Malik (ed), Iqbal, p. 27.
This is in sharp contrast to a Bengali poet who had renounced his
knighthood in 1919 to protest the Jalianwalabagh massacre in Punjab.
So much for Iqbal's patriotism.
Patriotism isn't the only issue on which Iqbal lagged Kazi Nazrul
Islam. Nazrul was a champion of social justice while Iqbal was a
misogynist to the core.
What can be more unambiguous and more stirring than Nazrul's words:
"Sammer gan gai,
Amar chokkhe purush-romoni kono vedaved nai.
Bishwe ja kichhu mahan srishti chiro kalyan-kar
Ardhek tar kariachhe nari, ardhek tar nar."
Iqbal was a study in contrast. The following two books by the scholar
W.C.Smith provide some illuminating insights into Iqbal's misogynist
mindset:
1. Modern Islam In India, Victor Gollancz, London, 1946
2. Islam In Modern History, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1957
Iqbal's personality development was for men only. Smith wrote that
even at "his most poetic, his most progressive, his most inclusively
utopian" moments, Iqbal left women of the world out of his dynamic new
world.
Smith went on to write, "For women, he wanted no activism, no freedom.
Iqbal kept his own wives in purdah and untiringly preached to the
world his conception of the ideal woman."
In Javid-Namah, Iqbal satirized a western woman who addresses other
women as:
"Ladies! Mothers! Sisters!
How long shall you live as beloveds?
Belovedness is sheer privation:
It is suffering of oppression and tyranny."
Iqbal epitomized his conception of the ideal woman in his ode to the
Prophet's daughter (translation by Smith):
"The chaste Fatimah is the harvest of the field of submission,
is a perfect model for mothers,
So touched was her heart for the poor,
That she sold her own wrap.
She who might command the spirits of heaven and hell
Merged her own will in the will of her husband.
Her upbringing was in courtesy and forbearance:
And, murmuring the Koran, she ground corn."
One-pubic-hair of Karachi claims that the so-called "Allamah" was
well versed in the Koran and that his writings were for all of
humanity. One-pubic-hair of Karachi had gone on to deride Kazi Nazrul
Islam as merely a local poet who touted outdated concepts of communism
and hadn't studied the Koran.
Well, those who have read Nazrul or heard his songs, know of his
strong belief in sammo (social justice). And unlike Iqbal's outdated
notions of equality, Nazrul forcefully sang the equality of genders
and classes alike. To me, that places Nazrul far closer to Allah than
the "Allamah" ever was.
Whatever one-pubic-hair of Karachi might claim, social justice will
never get outdated. The British imperialists knew the power of
Nazrul's writings. That is why they put him in jail. But the
"Allamah", with his feudal baggage, was a different animal. The
British imperialists rewarded him with knighthood. And the "Allamah"
gladly accepted it in the midst of the Khilafat movement. This is in
stark contrast to a Bengali poet who had renounced knighthood in 1919
to protest the Jalianwalabagh massacre in the Allamah''s Punjab. No
surprise there for hadn't the "Allamah" aligned himsel with the pro-
British faction of the Muslim
League? So much for Iqbal's patriotism.
In my strongly held opinion, Pakistan will benefit a lot more from
studying a strong and eloquent voice of social justice like Kazi
Nazrul Islam than Bangladesh will benefit from studying a reactionary
feudal poet like Iqbal whose views on women's rights were extremely
unsavory and medieval.
The "Allamah's" loyalist views showed up most crassly in his dealings
with Punjab Governor Sir Michael O'Dwyer of Jalianwalabag massacre
infamy.
At the request of that infamous Sir Michael O'Dwyer, governor of the
Punjab, Iqbal chose to eulogize the empire in the wake of the infamous
Rowlatt Act. The eulogy was read out in 1918. In it, addressing the
King of England, Iqbal says:
"If there is freedom of speech and writing here, if there is peace
between the Temple and the Mosque here,
"If there is an organised system of business of the various peoples
here, if there is strength in the dagger and life in the sword here,
"Whatever there is, it has been granted by you, O honoured one, this
land is alive only because of your existence.
"I am the tree of loyalty, love is my fruit, a just witness to this
statement are my actions.
"Sincerity is selfless, so is truth selfless, so is service, and so is
devotion selfless,
"Pledge, loyalty and love are also selfless, and devotion to the royal
throne is also selfless,
"But being human the thought which arises naturally is, that your
favours are manifest upon India."
This was published in the paper Akhbar-i Haq, the magazine Zamana of
Kanpur, and the book Hindustan aur Jang 'Alamgir (`India and the World
War') by L. Ralya Ram. It was then published in Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, on
pages 216 to 219. It was first read out by Dr. Iqbal himself at the
Punjab University Hall, Lahore.
This wasn't an isolated event. When Muslim League broke apart in 1927,
Iqbal chose to side with the pro-British faction and presided over the
rump.
Iqbal indeed has a long history of licking British boots. He wrote
many a poem in praise and adulation of the British rulers of India.
Upon the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Dr. Iqbal penned an
epicedium of ten pages, entitled `Tears of Blood'. The Queen died on
the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, and Iqbal wrote:
"Happiness came, but grief came along with it,Yesterday was Eid, but
today muharram (Month of the year associated with the deepest mourning
for Muslims) came.
"Easier than the grief and mourning of this day, Would be the coming
of the morn of the day of judgment.
"Ah! the Queen of the realm of the heart has passed away, My scarred
heart has become a house of mourning.
"O India, thy lover has passed away, She who sighed at thy troubles
has passed away.
"O India, the protective shadow of God has been lifted from above you,
She who sympathised with your inhabitants has gone.
"Victoria is not dead as her good name remains, this is the life to
whomever God gives it.
"May the deceased receive abundant heavenly reward, and may we show
goodly patience."
(Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, Poem runs over pages 71– 90.)
In December 1911, on the occasion of the coronation of King George V,
Iqbal wrote and read out a poem entitled `Our King':
"It is the height of our good fortune, That our King is crowned today.
"By his life our peoples have honour, By his name our respect is
established.
"With him have the Indians made a bond of loyalty, On the dust of his
footsteps are our hearts sacrifced."
(Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, p. 206.)
I am not surprised that someone like one-pubic-har of Karachi cannot
appreciate Kazi Nazrul Islam and must fulfill the needs of his spirit
with the works of the "Allamah", verily a running dog of British
imperialism.
For the time being, let me tell one-pubic-hair of Karachi "for us our
deen and for you yours".
>
> SPAIN: AN ABORTION EVERY HALF HOUR AMONG TEENAGERS
>
> (ANSAmed) - MADRID, SEPTEMBER 24 - Spain is at the top of the list of
> European countries for the abortion rate among minors below the age of
> 20, according to a report from the Institute of Family Policy (IPF),
> based on data from the national statistics institute, Eurostat and the
> Ministry of Health. Every 18 minutes a teenager gets pregnant, adding
> up to a total of 29,000 pregnancies per year, half of which, 53%, ends
> in an abortion. "This means that a pregnant adolescent gets an
> abortion every half-hour", IPF sources assured to ANSAmed. In the ten
> years between 1996 and 2007, cases of adolescent pregnancies in Spain
> increased by 10,000, while the European Union in total registered a
> decrease of 50,000 for the same period. In Spain, in 1996, the
> abortion rate for young women under the age of 20 was 4%, increasing
> to 7.2% in 2007. There were 15,307 voluntary interruptions of
> pregnancies in this age range in 2007, equal to 53% of the pregnant
> teenagers; about 500 of the abortions involved minors of 15 years old.
> In the previous decade, according to IPF, the percentage of Spanish
> minors that chose to undergo voluntary interruption of pregnancy was
> 40%, the same as the average for other European countries. A figure
> that indicates the failure of the education policy aimed at preventing
> abortions, according to IPF, which highlighted the fact that the
> increase in teenage abortions among adolescents is also due to the
> "permissiveness of current legislation" . The legislation permits
> abortion in three cases: serious risk of deformation of the foetus,
> rape or health or mental risks to the mother, the latter of which is
> the motivation behind 98% of abortions. The reform law approved by the
> Zapatero government and Parliamentary examination fixed time
> limitations for the first time. It legalises abortion in the first 14
> weeks of pregnancy, with a possible increase to 22 in cases of foetal
> deformation or physical or mental risks for the mother, as well as
> allowing for abortion among minors from 16 to 18 years of age without
> their parents consent. The Council of State in recent days expressed a
> positive judgement on the constitutionality of the law, recommending
> that parents "are listened to" and consulted, even if the final word
> rests with the minor. Against the abortion reform and in defence of
> the right to life, bishops have organised a large demonstration that
> will take place in Madrid on October 17. (ANSAmed).
> 2009-09-24 16:21
>
> http://www.ansamed. info/en/news/ ME03.@AM56813. html
Satish Kumar
> On Nov 12, 11:50 pm, Muhammad Javed Iqbal <kaleemjavediq...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Iqbal had predicted that the western civilization will commit suicide
> > with its own hands. Now look at the following news, where west can be
> > seen killing itself one by one.
>
Ekball, why don't you write about the murder of a prostitute that Sir
Muhammad Iqbal got away with at Hira Mandi? Here's an account of his
sexual perversions:
Translation of - Allama Iqbal-Ek Mehbooba, teen beewiaN, chaar shadiaN
- by Dr. Khalid Sohail
Allama Iqbal and His Women
Translation By Rafi Aamer
Excerpt:
While living with three wives, Iqbal continued his correspondence with
Atiya Faizi. Iqbal's love life was so typical of the life of an
Eastern poet; he couldn't marry the woman he loved and he couldn't
love the women he married.
Iqbal never moved to Europe but he maintained contacts with European
ladies. They used to come over to India and meet Iqbal and Iqbal
showed equal enthusiasm meeting them. After the death of Sardar Begum,
instead of hiring an Indian woman, Iqbal hired a German governess for
Javed and Muneera who used to call her aunt Doris. It seems that Doris
was serving dual purpose of looking after the kids and assuaging
Iqbal's nostalgia about Europe.
As a psycho-therapist, Iqbal's love life came to me as a surprise. I
am surprised to note that The Poet of the East, who had a solution for
every problem afflicting his nation, remained clueless about the
solutions of his own romantic and marital problems. I find it hard to
believe that he got separated from his first wife and their kids after
sixteen years of marriage, that he divorced his second wife based only
on anonymous letters, that he realized that he was deceived only after
he had consummated his marriage with his third wife, and more
surprisingly, that he sought an edict from a cleric and then ignored
the edict before marrying Sardar Begum a second time.
I guess Iqbal must have concluded from these experiences that it was
easier for him to have a successful creative life than a successful
marital life. Words came easy to Iqbal but the answers to the tough
questions of his romantic dilemmas did not. Maybe that is why he
wrote,
Iqbal baRa updeshak hai, mun baton main moh laita hai.
Guftaar ka yeh ghazi to bana, kirdaar ka ghazi ban naa saka.