Shair-e-Mashriq: Allama Iqbal's 74th death anniversary observed

Time to finally bury Iqbal permanently. We have confused ourselves plenty in sixty years, now is the time for some clarity. 2047 is what matters now, not 1947 anymore.

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@Pakistan politics: ” … I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. … “

Prophetic wasn’t he ?

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@ Umer

No my friend only those people are confused who want to be…
For us message of Iqbal is clear and his message is all about Islam and Islam is not confusing at all.
Our people don’t read the Quran and Sunnah and same is true for the Westners. They interpret Islam on the basis of what they hear for the Maulvis who themselves cannot even pass Matriculation. Tell me on any scholar in Pakistan who ever favored violence; and I’m talking about real scholars… Two good examples are Dr. Israr (R.A), Tahir-ul-Qadri.

@ Arijit Sharma

Sure, he was… See what have you done to Muslims in Kashmir for 65 years… See under your nose first and keep your forked tounge in your mouth.

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Iqbal was never relevant and will never be. As a confused man himself, he is a huge source of confusion for Pakistanis who faithfully follow his utopian ideas which have no place in today’s world. Iqbal lived in the past and died in the past. His ‘ideology’ is dragging us back into the cave. He is burried physically, let us burry him intellectually too. That is a way out for Pakistanis to shed the burden of history and move on into the 21st century. Recommend

Upon the death of Queen Victoria, Iqbal penned a 12 page long elegy titled ‘Ashq-e-Khoon’ (Tears of Heaven)

Easier than the grief and mourning of this day

Would be the coming of the morn of the day of judgment

Ah! the Queen of the realm of the heart has passed away

My scarred heart has become a house of mourning

(Baqiyyat i Iqbal, Pg 59-71)

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@The Flying Object:

Tell me on any scholar in Pakistan who
ever favored violence; and I’m talking
about real scholars… Two good examples
are Dr. Israr (R.A), Tahir-ul-Qadri.

Here is Dr Tahir ul Qadri’s fatwa from his own site;

He established, on evidence from the
Quran and Sunna, that a person guilty
of contempt of the finality of the
Holy Prophet (blessings and peace be
upon him) deserved death sentence and
the punishment will be imposed as
Hadd. The act of contempt of the
finality of the Prophet (blessings and
peace be upon him) is a crime, which
cannot be tolerated whether its
commission is direct or indirect,
intentional or un-intentional. The
crime is so sanguine that even his
repentance cannot exempt him from the
penalty of death.

Minhaj.org

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Allama Sir Muhammed Iqbal “Muffakir-e-Pakistan?”

Word “PAKISTAN” was not even part of political lexicon at the time of his death.
He NEVER EVER uttered word “PAKISTAN” in any form during his life.
What is next; that he posthumously wrote and presented Pakistan Resolution?
Please stop mocking Pakistan’s history!

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Poet of the east ? What nonsense !
East has China , Japan , India etc

His so-called philosophy of ‘khudi’ is replica of Nietzsche’s work (Der Wille zur Macht).

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@ Ramin Baloch: what you describe has been a part of psychological and philosophical teachings for a very long time. it has been referred to as the concept of self actualization, sometimes and sometimes as the pleasure principle … and other times as “KHUDI”. Your ill intended comment just proves you criticize just for the sake of it. not too heroic a thing to do :P

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@Sundas: “it has been referred to as the concept of self actualization, sometimes and sometimes as the pleasure principle … and other times as “KHUDI””

Pleasure priciple or Hedonia goes with Id as opposed to Ultruism with Super Ego according to Ego Psychology.
Maslow’s self Actualization has nothing to do with Id or Freudian Pleasure Principle.
“Khudi” could best be described as Self Esteem possibly influenced by Hellenistic Stoicism.
It has nothing to do with Maslow and Freud.
I think I know a thing or two about the subject; I make a living through it.

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