Allama Iqbal Essay 2
Sir Mohammad Iqbal, better known as “Allama” (scholar) Iqbal, is a unanimously celebrated poet and thinker all over the state of Pakistan. He is considered among the founders of Pakistan, and often credited for the very idea of an independent state for Indian Muslims, “Quaid-e-Azam” (the great leader) Mohammad Ali Jinnah being the man who realized Iqbal’s vision and founded “Pakistan” (the land of the pure) in 1947.
Born in Sialkot, Punjab, now part of Pakistan, Iqbal belonged to a family of reasonable means and very strong Islamic values. He was educated in a variety of subjects which included philosophy, history, art, religion, poetry and prose in a variety of languages. Later, he travelled to Europe and became a student of law as well as art and philosophy. Upon his return to India he set up a legal practice and became involved in politics, while maintaining a career as a poet and writer as well, producing works in Persian, Urdu and English. He was acknowledged as a man of great learning and delivered lectures and speeches in India, Egypt, Spain and other countries. He was head of the British branch of the Muslim League for a time, and then the Punjab Muslim League.
Beyond anything, Iqbal was a thinker and philosopher, a true visionary. His first publications dwelt on the subject of self and the individual, and later these panned out to the larger subject from the individual to the society and the wider community. He clearly defined the unbreakable bond between one’s individual development and the betterment of the external society by a number of means, thus concluding that one could not exist without the other. With this wisdom imparted, he called to the Muslim community of India to heed his words and rise once again as a strong, independent nation in their own right. He strongly believed that the Muslims of India were to be the revivers of the Muslim Ummah (nation) all over the world. At the same time, he set the stage for more acceptance for Islam and such
Born in Sialkot, Punjab, now part of Pakistan, Iqbal belonged to a family of reasonable means and very strong Islamic values. He was educated in a variety of subjects which included philosophy, history, art, religion, poetry and prose in a variety of languages. Later, he travelled to Europe and became a student of law as well as art and philosophy. Upon his return to India he set up a legal practice and became involved in politics, while maintaining a career as a poet and writer as well, producing works in Persian, Urdu and English. He was acknowledged as a man of great learning and delivered lectures and speeches in India, Egypt, Spain and other countries. He was head of the British branch of the Muslim League for a time, and then the Punjab Muslim League.
Beyond anything, Iqbal was a thinker and philosopher, a true visionary. His first publications dwelt on the subject of self and the individual, and later these panned out to the larger subject from the individual to the society and the wider community. He clearly defined the unbreakable bond between one’s individual development and the betterment of the external society by a number of means, thus concluding that one could not exist without the other. With this wisdom imparted, he called to the Muslim community of India to heed his words and rise once again as a strong, independent nation in their own right. He strongly believed that the Muslims of India were to be the revivers of the Muslim Ummah (nation) all over the world. At the same time, he set the stage for more acceptance for Islam and such
Bibliography: http://www.allamaiqbal.com http://www.wikipedia.org Pakistan Studies, by Prof. M. Ikram Rabbani, 2001