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Allama Iqbal
Biography
Illama Iqbal Iqbal was an heir to a very rich
literary, mystic, philosophical and religious
tradition. He imbibed and assimilated all that was
best in the past and present Islamic and Oriental
thought and culture. His range of interests covered
Religion, Philosophy, Art, Politics, Economics, the
revival of Muslim life and universal brotherhood of
man. His prose, not only in his national language
but also in English, was powerful. His two books in
English demonstrate his mastery of English. But
poetry was his medium par excellence of
expression. Everything he thought and felt, almost
involuntarily shaped itself into verse.
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Life Sketch of Allama Iqbal
Muhammad Illama Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877, at
Sialkot, Punjab. His grandfather Shaikh Rafiq, a
Kashmiri, had joined a wave of migration to Sialkot,
where he made a living peddling Kashmiri shawls.
Shaikh Rafiq had two sons, Shaikh Ghulam Qadir and
Shaikh Nur Muhammad, Iqbal's father.
Shaikh Nur Muhammad was a tailor whose handiwork was
quite well known in Sialkot. But it was his devotion
to Islam, especially its mystical aspects, that
gained him respect among his Sufi peers and other
associates. His wife, Imam Bibi, was also a devout
Muslim. The couple instilled a deep religious
consciousness in all their five children.
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Allama
Iqbal and Pakistan Movement
Although Ilamma Iqbal main interests were scholarly, Iqbal
was not unconcerned with the political situation of
the, country and the political fortunes of the
Muslim community of India. Already in 1908, while in
England, he had been chosen as a member of the
executive council of the newly-established British
branch of the Indian Muslim League. In 1931 and 1932
he represented the Muslims of India in the Round
Table Conferences held in England to discuss the
issue of the political future of India. And in a
1930 lecture Iqbal suggested the creation of a
separate homeland for the Muslims of India. Iqbal
died (1938) before the creation of Pakistan (1947),
but it was his teaching that "spiritually ... has
been the chief force behind the creation of
Pakistan."
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