Best Poetry Muhammad Iqbal

 

Sir Muhammad Iqbal  (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938) was a Muslimpoet and philosopher born in Sialkot, British India (now in Pakistan), whose poetry in Urduand Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era He is commonly referred to as Allama  Allama lit. Scholar).After studying in England and Germany, Iqbal established a law practice, but concentrated primarily on writing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy and religion. He is best known for his poetic works, including Asrar-e-Khudi—which brought aknighthood— Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, and the Bang-e-Dara, with its enduring patriotic songTarana-e-Hind. In Afghanistan and Iran, where he is known as Iqbāl-e Lāhorī (ل‎Iqbal of Lahore), he is highly regarded for his Persian works.Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilization across the world, but specifically in India; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. One of the most prominent leaders of the All-India Muslim League, Iqbal encouraged the creation of a "state in northwestern India for Indian Muslims" in his 1930 presidential address Iqbal encouraged and worked closely with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and he is known as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-e-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), andHakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of the Ummah"). He is officially recognised as the "nationMuhammad Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877 in Sialkot, in the Punjab province of British India in what is now Pakistan. During the reign of Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan—according to scholar Bruce Lawrence—Iqbal's Kashmiri Pandit ancestors from Kashmir had converted toIslam. According to some sources: "The family had migrated from Kashmir where Iqbal's Brahmin ancestors had been converted to Islam." Iqbal often wrote about his being "a son of Kashmiri-Brahmins but (being) acquainted with the wisdom of Rûm and TabrizIqbal's father, Nur Muhammad, was a tailor who lacked formal education, but who had great devotion to Islam and Sufism and a "mystically tinged piety. Iqbal's mother was known in the family as a "wise, generous woman who quietly gave financial help to poor and needy women and arbitrated in neighbor's disputes. After his mother's death in 1914, Iqbal wrote an elegy for heWho would wait for me anxiously in my native place?Who would display restlessness if my letter fails to arrivI will visit thy grave with this complaint:Who will now think of me in midnight prayers?All thy life thy love served me with devotion—When I became fit to serve thee, thou hastdepartedal poet" in Pakistan. The anniversary of his birth - Yōm-e Welādat-e Muḥammad Iqbāl) on November 9 is a holiday in Pakistan.