Allam Muhammad Iqbal/English Debate

 

Your Excellency the President and the distinguished audience

Asslam o Alaikum

may peace be upon you

Today, I have the opportunity to speak on the topic of "Allama Muhammad Iqbal and his Shaheen".

Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, known to the world as the Poet of the East, the Poet of the Nation of Islam, was born on November 9, 1877 in the house of Sheikh Noor Muhammad in Sialkot.

He passed Matriculation from Mission High School in Sialkot and FA from Murray College Sialkot. He studied Arabic, Persian and Philosophy at Government College Lahore, then at the University of Munich, Germany, Iqbal obtained a doctorate in philosophy by writing a dissertation on spiritual development in Iran. 

In 1922, he was awarded the title of Sir, but in the same period, Allama Iqbal's majesty proved to be the cry of the hearts of Muslims. When he was severely criticized for writing a complaint, he wrote a reply to the critics, dispelling all the critics and protesters that what comes out of the heart has an effect. From Iqbal's poetry

خیابانیوں سے ، ہے پرہیز لازم

ادائیں ہیں ان کی بہت دلبرانہ

حمام و کبوتر کا بھوکا نہیں میں

کہ ہے زندگی باز کی زاہدانہ

جھپٹنا ، پلٹنا، پلٹ کر جھپٹنا

لہو گرم رکھنے کا ہے اک بہانہ

یہ پورب ، یہ پچھم ، چکوروں کی دنیا

میرا نےلگوں آسماں بے کرانہ

پرندوں کی دنیا کا درویش ہوں میں

کہ شاہیں بناتا نہیں آشیا نہ

Allama Muhammad Iqbal through his poetry created a sense of freedom and sovereignty in the oppressed nation. He addressed the 21st Annual Meeting of the All India Muslim League in Allahabad in 1930 and envisioned an independent Islamic State in the subcontinent.

Allama Iqbal loved the youth very much. According to him, this young Shaheen is the attribute of the nation. Shaheen Allama is his favorite bird in which he sees a picture of a fast, agile and young man flying in the air. In this way, he introduces a passionate action that keeps him from believing. Iqbal's concept of Shaheen is not just a poetic imagination but it contains all the attributes of Islamic poverty. Shaheen whose abode is height and nature is curiosity. Iqbal Shaheen is asked not to stay on the dome of Qasr Sultani but to rest in the rocks of the mountains. From Iqbal's poetry

عقابی روح جب بیدار ہوتی ہے جوانوں میں

نظر آتی ہے ان کو اپنی منزل آسمانوں میں

نہیں تیرا نشیمن قصر سلطانی کے گنبد پر

تو شاہیں ہے بسیرا کر پہاڑوں کی 

چٹانوں میں

Iqbal's Shaheen is not only a bird but also a passionate, embodied, spirit of revolution, freedom, self-determination of this movement and action in the body of life. 

میری نظر میں یہی ہے جمال زیبائی

کہ سر بسجود ہیں قوت کے سامنے افلاک

Mr. President
The world is mortal.
The whole soul tastes death. Every living thing has to taste death.
Allama Iqbal had passed away on April 21, 1938, even before the independence of Pakistan. However, as a great poet and thinker, the nation will always be grateful to him.

والسلام