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Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Sir Muhammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal (1877–1938), was a Muslim philosopher, poet, writer, scholar and politician of early 20th-century. He is particularly known in the Indian sub-continent for his Urdu philosophical poetry on Islam and the need for the cultural and intellectual reconstruction of the Islamic community.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... ("A stream full of life") ... is another philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal in Urdu, it was published in 1936, two ...
The "Khizr-i-Rah" ("The Guide of the Path") is a poem in Urdu written in 1922 by Sir Muhammad Iqbal [1] and published in his 1924 collection Bang-i-dara. [2] It deals with the subject of the political future of Muslims. The poem is an imaginary conversation between Iqbal and Khizr (The Guide).
Bal-i-Jibril is regarded as the peak of Iqbal's Urdu poetry. It consists of ghazals , poems, quatrains , epigrams and advises the nurturing of the vision and intellect necessary to foster sincerity and firm belief in the heart of the ummah and turn its members into true believers.
Here Iqbal poses and answers nine questions on philosophical problems such as the nature of discursive thought, of the self, and of the relation between the eternal and the temporal. The subject of the second poem, the Bandagi Nama ( بندگینامه , "Book of Servitude") is the loss of freedom, particularly spiritual freedom, of an ...
Poems written between 1908 and 1923, in which Iqbal reminds Muslims of their past greatness and calls for a sense of brotherhood and unity that transcends territorial boundaries. He urges the ummah to live a life of servitude to God, of sacrifice, and of action so that they may attain once more the high civilization that was once theirs.
Though much of his poetry is written in Persian, Muhammad Iqbal was also a poet of stature in Urdu. Shikwa, published in 1909, and Jawab-e-Shikwa, published in 1913, extol the legacy of Islam and its civilizing role in history, bemoan the fate of Muslims everywhere, and squarely confront the dilemmas of Islam in modern times.
In this time, Iqbal's world view had changed dramatically, Tarana-E-Hindi is an old song that glorifies the land of India or (Modern day comprising India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and the people who live in it; it also suggests that people should not divided by religion and should instead be connected by a common national identity. "Tarana-E ...