{"id":390,"date":"2009-11-09T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amroha.co.in\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-12-11T07:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:43:33","slug":"allama-iqbal-the-poet-of-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/allama-iqbal-the-poet-of-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Allama Iqbal : The poet of the East"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sare Jahan se achcha Hindustan Hamara, Hum bulbulen hain iski yeh gulsitan hamara.\u2019<\/div>\n
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MY\u00a0INDIA\u00a0is the best amongst all the nations of the world. We are its nightingales and this is our garden. That\u2019s how \u2018the poet of East – Allama Sheikh Mohammed Iqbal\u2019\u00a0 showered his unlimited love for his country. – India.<\/p>\n

\u2018Khake witan ka humko har zarra devta hai\u201d (Each dust particle of my motherland is god to me).<\/p>\n

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Iqbal has a great and unique vision of India and he had described his dream of a new India in these words:<\/p>\n

Sach keh doon aye Brahmin gar tu bura na mane. (Should I speak the truth Oh Brahmin if you aren\u2019t offended?)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Aa ek naya shiwali hum phir se yan bana de\u2019n. (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)<\/p>\n

Dharti ke waasiyon ki mukti preet me hai. (Peace of inhabitants of the\u00a0world\u00a0lies in love)<\/p>\n

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.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Punjab 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\u2019s invitation he participated in welcome celebration in Kabul, along with Syed Sulaiman Nadwi and Sir Ross Masood. He died on April 21, 1938.\n<\/div>\n
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. \u201cThis is not the whole Truth,\u201d said Professor Abdul Haq, an eminent Urdu critic. \u201cIqbal foresaw a federal structure for a free India, in which a Muslim-dominated north-western region could be a cultural unit like many others,\u201d he said. As far as the idea of Pakistan is concerned, Iqbal denied that he was the originator of this idea. \u201cIqbal has clearly denied this in his letters to Raghib Hussain. People don\u2019t talk about these letters since they don\u2019t favor their point of view,\u201d said Dr Haq.\n<\/div>\n
Dr Abdul Haq said that Iqbal is the most misunderstood poet of the 20th century. \u201cWe must look at Iqbal in totality if we want to understand him,\u201d he said. Iqbal\u2019s 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\u2019m sure in any other Indian language too, has shed as many tears on India\u2019s misery and colonial captivity.<\/p>\n

Uth ke ab daore jahan ka aur hi andaz haiMashroq-o-maghrib me tere daur ka aghaz hai\u201cGet up now that the style of the world has changed.It is the beginning of your age in the East and West.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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  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. \u2018Sare Jahan se achcha Hindustan Hamara, Hum bulbulen hain iski yeh gulsitan hamara.\u2019 MY\u00a0INDIA\u00a0is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219,220],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-hindu-muslim-unity","tag-mashroq-o-maghrib"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}