Dr. Mohammad Iqbal was born at Sialkot on November 9, 1877. His father was a mystic from where he inherited mysticism. Though his father was not so educated. but he had a great desire to see his son properly educated. He received his early education at a local high school and passed Intermediate Examination from Murrey College Sialkot. After passin2. his M.A., he became a lecturer in philosophy in the Government College, Lahore. He then proceeded to England for higher studies in 1905. He obtained the degree of Bar-at-Law from the Cambridge University. He also prepared a thesis on Persian Philosophy which earned him doetorate from the Cambridge and the Munich Universities.
He returned to India and joined the bar, but could not do well. This was because of the fact that at heart he was a man of letters and not of law. The poet in him who had been nourished and
nurtured from his boyhood days took the better of the lawyer in him. and he turned his attention to poetry which had been as it were, his life blood. He was a poet and philosopher combined and the ideas
I conveyed through his Bange-Dara, Bale-Jibreel, Israr-e-Khudi, Payame Mashrique and a most of others were new and very appealing.
Through his thoughtful and philosophical writing imbued with the spirit of Islam, he brought a new life to the Muslims of India and opened their eyes to what they then were and what they could be. His poetic fervour inspired the Muslims from one end. of India to the other with a new life, new feelings and new inspirations. Dr. lqbal was great Muslim thinker and poet.. He was a poetic reformer and as such, he could not but take interest in the politics of the day to safeguard the interests of the Muslims.
He was a member of the Punjab Legislative, Assembly and attended the Round Table Conference in London. In 1930, he presided over the Allahabad session of the All India Muslim League where he represented the Idea of Pakistan. Dr. lqbal died in Lahore on the 21st of April. 1938. at the age of sixty five. His dream of a separate homeland for the Muslims could not be fulfilled during his life-time, it materialised only nine years after his death.
He returned to India and joined the bar, but could not do well. This was because of the fact that at heart he was a man of letters and not of law. The poet in him who had been nourished and
nurtured from his boyhood days took the better of the lawyer in him. and he turned his attention to poetry which had been as it were, his life blood. He was a poet and philosopher combined and the ideas
I conveyed through his Bange-Dara, Bale-Jibreel, Israr-e-Khudi, Payame Mashrique and a most of others were new and very appealing.
Through his thoughtful and philosophical writing imbued with the spirit of Islam, he brought a new life to the Muslims of India and opened their eyes to what they then were and what they could be. His poetic fervour inspired the Muslims from one end. of India to the other with a new life, new feelings and new inspirations. Dr. lqbal was great Muslim thinker and poet.. He was a poetic reformer and as such, he could not but take interest in the politics of the day to safeguard the interests of the Muslims.
He was a member of the Punjab Legislative, Assembly and attended the Round Table Conference in London. In 1930, he presided over the Allahabad session of the All India Muslim League where he represented the Idea of Pakistan. Dr. lqbal died in Lahore on the 21st of April. 1938. at the age of sixty five. His dream of a separate homeland for the Muslims could not be fulfilled during his life-time, it materialised only nine years after his death.
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