Today marks the 87th anniversary of Allama Iqbal’s passing.
Today (Monday) is the 87th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the great Eastern poet, philosopher, and thinker, in remembrance of his contributions to the fight for a distinct homeland for Muslims in the subcontinent.
On November 9, 1877, Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born in Sialkot. Known as Muffakir-e-Pakistan (Pakistan’s thinker), Shair-e-Mashriq (the poet of the East), and Hakeemul Ummat (the doctor of the Muslim ummah), he is also acknowledged as a national poet and is credited with igniting the subcontinent’s Muslims’ interest in pan-Islamic philosophy.
Pakistan was established in 1947 as a result of Allama Iqbal’s vision of a distinct homeland for Muslims on the subcontinent.
With writings in both Persian and Urdu, he is also regarded as one of the most significant literary personalities. Among his outstanding works were Asrar-e-Khudi, Payam-i-Mashriq, Bang-i-Dara, Bal-i-Jibril, Zarb-i Kalim, and Armughan-e-Hijaz.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a profound scholar, an honest leader of the Muslim subcontinent, and a true benefactor of the Muslim Ummah. He instilled in the Muslim young the values of greatness, freedom, and self-sufficiency through his poetry and ideas.
Special programs will be organized by various educational, political, social, and cultural organizations to depict Iqbal’s life and ideology and his role to raising awareness among South Asian Muslims.
Iqbal was a modern-day Sufi poet whose poetry inspired a spirit of revolution in the country. He is regarded as a renowned philosopher worldwide, and his poetry has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, English, and several other languages.
Regretfully, he was unable to see Pakistan’s independence and passed away on April 21, 1938.
