“Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed.”
Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.
Dottor Sir Allamah Muhammad Iqbal è stato un accademico, poeta, barrister, filosofo, politico e opinionista pakistano.
Egli è chiamato il "padre spirituale del Pakistan". è considerato una delle figure più importanti della letteratura urdu, con opera letteraria in urdu e persiano Entrambe le lingue.
Iqbal è ammirato come poeta di rilievo da pakistani, indiani, iraniani, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka e altri studiosi internazionali di letteratura. Anche se Iqbal è meglio conosciuto come un poeta eminente, egli è anche un acclamato "pensatore filosofico musulmano dei tempi moderni". Il suo primo libro di poesie, Asrar-e-Khudi, è apparso in lingua persiana nel 1915, e altri libri di poesia includono Rumuz-i-Bekhudi, Payam-i-Mashriq e Zabur-i-Ajam. Tra questi, i suoi più noti lavori in Urdu sono Bang-i-Dara, Bal-i-Jibril, Zarb-i Kalim e una parte di Armughan-e-Hijaz. Insieme alla sua urdu e persiana poesia, le sue lezioni e le lettere in urdu e in inglese sono state molto influenti nelle controversie culturali, sociali, religiose e politiche.
Nel 1922, fu nominato cavaliere da re Giorgio V, concedendogli il titolo di "Sir". Mentre studiava diritto e filosofia in Inghilterra, Iqbal è diventato un membro della filiale di Londra della All-India Muslim League. Più tardi, durante la sessione di dicembre 1930 della Lega, ha presentato il suo più famoso discorso presidenziale noto come "Allahabad Address" in cui ha spinto per la creazione di uno Stato islamico nel nord-ovest dell'India.
In gran parte dell'Asia meridionale e del mondo dove si parla Urdu, Iqbal è considerato come la Shair-e-Mashriq. . Egli è chiamato anche Mufakkir-e-Pakistan , Musawar-e-Pakistan e Hakeem-ul-Ummat . Il governo Pakistano lo ha nominato ufficialmente un poeta nazionale. Il suo compleanno Yom-e-Welādat-e Muhammad Iqbal , o Iqbal day, è un giorno festivo in Pakistan. In India è ricordato anche come l'autore della canzone popolare "Saare Jahaan Se Achcha".
“Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed.”
Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.
Educational Thinkers http://books.google.com/books?id=O6Fp2zaQVVMC&pg=PA151&dq=Muhammad+Iqbal+Brahmin&hl=en&ei=hJQaTKPPKMewcfnqzIEK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Muhammad%20Iqbal%20Brahmin&f=false
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”
Stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/strayreflections/index.htm
“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism”
stray reflections[http:www.allamaiqbal.com.htm]
“"Heart – “It is absolutely certain that God does exist.””
stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/index.htm
Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal
Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response
Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)
“What if the song be Indian, it is Hejazi in its verve.”
Shikwa. According to some sources, a more literal translation is: "No matter if my idiom is Indian, my spirit is that of Hejaz." C.f. Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 343.
Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response
Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)
“What if the pitcher be Persian, from Hejaz is the wine I serve.”
Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response
The Secrets of Selflessness, Emperor Alamgir and the Tiger
“All land belongs to the Muslims, because it belongs to their God.”
Origine: Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.
These are the words of a great Muslim saint, 'AbdulQuddës of Gangoh. In the whole range of Sufi literature it will be probably difficult to find words which, in a single sentence, disclose such an acute perception of the psychological difference between the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of "unitary experience"; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large.
Origine: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/index.htm
Origine: Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal
“O water of the river Ganges, thou rememberst the day
When our torrent flooded thy valleys...”
Origine: quoted in Annemarie Schimmel - Gabriel's Wing_ Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1989, Iqbal Academy) also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
“Every land which belongs to God is our land.”
As quoted in Islam and Nationalism, Dr. Ali Mohammed Naqvi . Also translated as: "All land belongs to Muslims, because it belongs to their God. in : JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia, 93067 Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=rki6AAAAIAAJ
Origine: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought/uCh14nl09jkC?hl=en (1930), p. 42
Origine: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought/uCh14nl09jkC?hl=en (1930), p. 14