Books Written By Allama Iqbal
Matilda Equiluz
Wasiq, thanks.
As to what he was thinking, of course, who can know for sure! In my mind's eye I like to imagine the 30 year old poet experiencing loneliness in a foreign even if stimulating land and a longing for Lahore, his home and surroundings in Bhati darwaza, the meetings of the Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam and the halls of Government College.
" Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal, commonly known as allama Iqbal is my inspiration, he was really a genius, he had the forsight non other muslim has the same in the present era.
my salute to this great man!
Thanks for a wonderful post. I wish you have also taken a picture of that huge stone having the poem of Iqbal. One can find this stone somewhere close to Iqbal Ufer.
Saadia Khan
Frankfurt
Dear Fawad,
A great tribute paid by you to the Poet / Scholar, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal being recognized world over. Last year, during my visit to Germany, I specially went to Heidelberg to see how the great nations recognize the great personalities irrespective of their Race or Region.
Inspiration.Wonderfully written. Thanks for posting this.
P.s Iqbal made a second and third visit to Europe as well. Did he visit Heidelberg again? Did he meet his teacher Emma? Asking as a student.
Dear Mr. Fawad. This is very inspirational post. it reminded me of evening of November 1995 when I had a day trip from Frankfurt to Heidelberg specially to see Ufer Iqbal and University of Heidelberg. Those were the days when I was working with German Chemical Company Hoeachst. Thanks for reminding of the day.
This morning I picked up an old copy of Bangay dara which I had gifted to my late father about thirty years ago. I had marked the page for 'aik shaam' as my sisters married boys from Heidelberg and as a young man I had sat at the edge of the Neckar many times in quiet. contemplation. I lived in England since I was 4 years old and was never tought Urdu. I could only just speak it with my parents but eventually we all resorted to English for the sake of easier communication. As a young man, during my many family visits to Heidelberg I would often take the opportunity to walk alongside the river Nekar but I had no idea that there would be a link with the great poet/philosopher. Although my parents and I am from Lahore my first language is English and I struggle immensely with written Urdu. So today dear friends as I sit quietly in my home in Cyprus reading aik shaam in broken Urdu with help of the transliteration I am able to pick up the jist of this piece thanks to your blog. Peace and Love to you and everyone that has commented on this site. By the way, I have written my own autobiography. It is on Amazon entitled'Look What Happened' by Maz Ghauri. This is not in any way a plug for the book as I am truly grateful for the opportunity to connect and learn with this blog.
Nations perserve their intengible heritage. The heritage is not only cultural, but, also literary, academic and oral. Allama Iqbal's Personal Library was donated to Islamaia College Lahore as per will of the Poet-Philosopher. These 433 books were shifted to Iqbal Academy Pakistan to facilitate the scholars and researchers of the Iqbal Studies, particularly those who are working of his biography of mind.
These boos were published 100 to 150 years ago. Allama Iqbal has put his hands on these books and written notes. The Iqbal Academy Pakistan has signed a MoU with the University of the Punjab, Lahore for scanning of these book on state-of-art overhead scanner. These books shall be available online on Iqbal Cyber Library to facilitate the readers worldwide.
Furthermore, in Kabul Iqbal visited the tomb of the founder of the Mughal Empire Zaheer-ud-Din Mohammad Babur, located at Bagh-e-Babur, where he had been buried according to his will. In 1904-05 Iqbal had remarked:
An informative and thought provoking article. I remember for the first time I read a book about allama Iqbal it was in 1974.It was a book written in Kurdish titled Muhammad Iqbal A Philosopher and A Revolutionary Poet . Later I started to read his poems in Arabic translated by famous writer Abdulrahman Azzam an Egyptian scholar. Iqbal is a famous poem throughout Muslim world his poems became songs anasheed or srood sung by youth in various occasions. As for Afghanistan and Afghan people I met many Afghan people in Iran and Canada. they are very nice people I have a good impression about them and I think allama Iqbal had the same .May Allah forgive Iqbal and all Muslims and save Afghanistan and other Muslim countries from every calamity. Thank you again for this article keep on writing similar articles.
Sir Allama Iqbal was a great poet. We can call him a leader of Muslim ummah.My grand father and Sir Allama Iqbal were once together at the platform of NGO Anjuman Himayat Islam.(AHI) in Lahore when Muslims in India were struggling for independence..AHI was founded in 1885 for the welfare of Muslims in the subcontinent.I remember my grandfather told me that Sir Iqbal came to see him at his house.This was an honor for my family.The philosophy of Sir Allama Iqbal must be part of our every curriculum..
I visited kabul in 1966 a beautiful city sweetened by fruits of paradise. While returning I shared seat with 1st secretary of Kabul Embassy we talked a lot about Pak Afghan relations. He was very hopeful that our relations will improve soon. Then engraved in my heart is statement of Hon.Karzae.That Pak Afghan are cojoined twins .Alas nothing is there on ground. For me only way is federation May Allah give us the wisdom to achieve this.
Love you brother. Realised the importance of Afghan Nation and the Poet of East again. No doubt Iqbal had greater love and affection for Afghan soil. May Allah give us the chance to repolish the ties like Iqbal with your paradise souls of our ancestors. God bless you ?
I hope Allama Iqbal r.a. becomes a binding bond between the Afghans on either side of the divide and the two countries I.e. make a strong confederation that would provide leadership to the muslim ummah.
May Allah bless you. I read Allah Iqbal in my leisure time in order to understand "concept of khudi". During study I read Iqbal did a journey of Afghanistan, I was surprised, how could that journey be difficult in 1930s. I read poems he wrote about Afghans. You as a writer filled the blank part of picture in my mind today i.e. Who invited him, who accompanied him, where he stay, who were the people he met and specially what were his comments on every aspect he came across. Great brother you will be remembered for this effort. And no doubt Allama Iqbal is part of our Soul and struggle. JazakAllah khair
Very interesting and informative.Although an avid reader and admirer of the great Allama Iqbal,I wasn't aware of certain incidents related here.Having been to Kabul myself,I find this article fascinating.
Dr Allama Iqbal works are full of inspirational poetry and calling on a man to rise above his circumstances by his own self efforts but the fact remains it was his idea for a separate Nation for Muslims that led to the creation of Pakistan and that is why he is largely ignored in India.
Highly knowledgeable Article compiled by you . The language is highly simple and understandable furthermore it also demonstrated the spirit of deep relations between Iqbal sab and Afghan Government. May Allah further elevated you in this regard Aminn..
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