86th death anniversary of Allama Iqbal being observed today

LAHORE: Allama Muhammad Iqbal is being remembered today across the country on his death anniversary to acknowledge his struggle and services for getting a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Subcontinent.

The nation is observing the 86th death anniversary of Allama Iqbal, the poet of the East, with reverence and respect.

The day is dawned with special prayers for the solidarity and prosperity of the country and the Muslims. The nation pays special tribute to Iqbal’s vision of a separate homeland for Muslims of the Sub-Continent.

Born on November 9, 1877, in Sialkot, Dr. Iqbal was a great representative of the subcontinent and one of the main exponents of the Pakistan Movement.

After a traditional education in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, he was exposed to a liberal education that shaped his thought and his poetry throughout his life. Called the Sufi poet of the modern age he was a man of great ideas dynamic, romantic, provocative, and profound. Allama Iqbal was a great poet, serious thinker, and philosopher, who infused a revolutionary spirit in the Muslim youth of the Subcontinent at the time through his poetry.

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Iqbal dreamed of a “perfect man” and had a metaphorical dialogue with the divine. His poetry emerged as a remarkable site where message and art converged, as he used metaphor, myth, and symbolism to revisit history, philosophy, and Islamic faith to develop his vision. Rearranged major poetic devices.

He has left collections of his poems, Asrar-e-Khudi, Ramuz-e-Bikhodi, Bang-e-Dara, Bal-Jabreel, Payam-e-Mashriq, Zaboor-i-Ajam, Javed-nama, Zarb-i-Kaleem, and Armaghan.

Allama Iqbal’s poetry has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and English including several other languages. The poet-philosopher died on April 21, 1938.