He learned the Arabic language from his teacher, Syed Mir Hassan, the head of the madrasa and professor of Arabic at Scotch Mission College in Sialkot, where he matriculated in 1893. Iqbal was four years old when he was sent to a mosque to receive instruction in reading the Qur'an. When I became fit to serve thee, thou hast departed. Who will now think of me in midnight prayers?Īll thy life thy love served me with devotion. I will visit thy grave with this complaint: Who would display restlessness if my letter fails to arrive? Who would wait for me anxiously in my native place? Iqbal loved his mother, and on her death he expressed his feelings of pathos in an elegy: Iqbal's mother Imam Bibi, a Kashmiri from Sambrial, was described as a polite and humble woman who helped the poor and her neighbours with their problems. Iqbal's father, Sheikh Noor Muhammad (died 1930), was a tailor, not formally educated, but a religious man.
According to scholar Annemarie Schimmel, Iqbal often wrote about his being "a son of Kashmiri-Brahmans but (being) acquainted with the wisdom of Rumi and Tabriz."
Iqbal often mentioned and commemorated his Kashmiri lineage in his writings. Iqbal's grandfather was an eighth cousin of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, an important lawyer and freedom fighter who would eventually become an admirer of Iqbal. In the 19th century, when the Sikh Empire was conquering Kashmir, his grandfather's family migrated to Punjab. His family was Kashmiri Pandit (of the Sapru clan) that converted to Islam in the 15th century and which traced its roots back to a south Kashmir village in Kulgam. Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877 in an ethnic Kashmiri family in Sialkot within the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan). Iqbal expressed his feeling of pathos in a poetic form after her death. Iqbal's mother, who died on 9 November 1914. The anniversary of his birth ( Yom-e Welādat-e Muḥammad Iqbāl), 9 November, used to be a public holiday in Pakistan until 2018. He is also known as the "Hakeem-ul-Ummat" (“The Sage of the Ummah”) and the "Mufakkir-e-Pakistan" (“The Thinker of Pakistan”). After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he was named the national poet there. In his 1930 presidential address at the League's annual meeting in Allahabad, he formulated a political framework for Muslims in British-ruled India. Iqbal was elected to the Punjab Legislative Council in 1927 and held a number of positions in the All India Muslim League.
URDU POEM BY ALLAMA IQBAL SERIES
Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but in particular in South Asia a series of lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. In Iran, where he is known as Iqbāl-e Lāhorī ( Iqbal of Lahore), he is highly regarded for his Persian works.
He is best known for his poetic works, including Asrar-e-Khudi – after whose publication he was awarded a knighthood, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, and the Bang-e-Dara. After returning to Lahore in 1908, he established a law practice but concentrated on writing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy, and religion. in philosophy at the University of Munich. at Trinity College, Cambridge and was subsequently called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and then to Germany, where he received a Ph.D. In 1905, he left for further studies in Europe, first to England, where he completed a second B.A. Among the Urdu poems from this time that remain popular are Parinde ki faryad (A bird's prayer), an early meditation on animal rights, and Tarana-e-Hindi (The Song of India) a patriotic poem-both poems composed for children. He taught Arabic at the Oriental College, Lahore from 1899 until 1903. īorn and raised in Sialkot, Punjab in an ethnic Kashmiri Muslim family, Iqbal completed his B.A. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian: علامہ, romanized: ʿallāma, lit.'very knowing, most learned'). Sir Muhammad Iqbal Kt ( Urdu: محمد اقبال 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan.
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