10 Interesting Facts about Allama Iqbal You Probably Didn't Know-

[M.R.9]

He was just not a Poet- He was Sufi, a true leader too.


1. KING GEORGE V KNIGHTED HIM IN 1922, GIVING HIM THE TITLE OF “SIR”

2. IQBAL MARRIED THREE TIMES. IN 1895, HE WAS MARRIED TO KARIM BIBI FOLLOWED BY THE SECOND MARRIAGE WITH SARDAR BEGUM IN 1910 AND FINALLY MUKHTAR BEGUM IN 1914

3. IQBAL QUALIFIED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND OBTAINED BACHELOR OF ARTS IN 1906 AND EARNED HIS ‘DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY’ DEGREE FROM THE LUDWIG MAXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY, MUNICH IN 1908

4. IQBAL’S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY “ASRAR-E-KHUDI”, WAS WRITTEN IN THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND DEALS WITH PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

5. ALLAMA IQBAL WAS ATTRIBUTED WITH TWO TITLES: “MUFAKKIR-E-PAKISTAN” OR “THE THINKER OF PAKISTAN” AND “HAKEEM-UL-UMMAT” OR THE SAGE OF THE UMMAH

6. HE WAS GIVEN THE “KHAN BAHADURDDIN F.S. JALALUDDIN” MEDAL IN 1897 FOR AN OUTSTANDING RESULT IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE


7. THERE IS A STREET NAMED AFTER IQBAL IN HEIDELBERG, GERMANY TO COMMEMORATE HIS STAY THERE

8. THERE IS ALSO A COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE IN GERMANY IN HONOUR OF THE GREAT POET

After the falling of Ottoman Khilafot

9. HE WROTE TO BRING ABOUT A MUSLIM REVOLUTION.

10. ALLAMA IQBAL WAS A REVIVALIST AND WANTED TO REVIVE ISLAM IN ITS TRUEST FORM

 

[Indus Pakistan]

10. ALLAMA IQBAL WAS A REVIVALIST AND WANTED TO REVIVE ISLAM IN ITS TRUEST FORM

You do know he wanted Islam to be re-interpreted and subtracted from it's primitive Arab influence?

 

[Valar.]

7. THERE IS A STREET NAMED AFTER IQBAL IN HEIDELBERG, GERMANY TO COMMEMORATE HIS STAY THERE

Been there

 

[M.R.9]

You do know he wanted Islam to be re-interpreted and subtracted from it's primitive Arab influence?

No - I dont think so- bcz he was well concerned about Arab formation. He was opposite. He wanted to united muslim ummah movements.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

No - I dont think so- bcz he was well concerned about Arab formation. He was opposite. He wanted to united muslim ummah movements.

Leave the crap about the ummah for now. Instead can you note the first point I made -

You do know he wanted Islam to be re-interpreted

 

[M.R.9]

Been there

In his time- He was one of the most reputed scholar - He knew many languages . Mufti in Quraa'N. n J Allah Grad also he was well known about all reputed Hadit.

Leave the crap about the ummah for now. Instead can you note the first point I made -

hahahaha. why i should leave the word Ummah ? We are all in a row. BTW, Nope bro- i didn't get that .

 

[Yankee-stani]

You do know he wanted Islam to be re-interpreted and subtracted from it's primitive Arab influence?

The fact he knew Mussolini and was widely respected in Europe kinda suprised me at first

 

[BHarwana]

Been there

 

[Indus Pakistan]

hahahaha. why i should leave the word Ummah ? We are all in a row. BTW, Nope bro- i didn't get that

I am not asking you to gve it up. All I said for purposes of this disccusion can I have your thoughts about Iqbal's wish that Islam be re-interpreted in light of the present - modern world?

 

[BHarwana]

I am not asking you to gve it up. All I said for purposes of this disccusion can I have your thoughts about Iqbal's wish that Islam be re-interpreted in light of the present - modern world?

You cannot reinterpret Islam bro. This is not Christianity or Judaism. Islam is something very complete. You cannot take Islam to be support for conservatives or liberals. But both sides have to balance them selves towards Islam. Consider Islam as a center point rather than moulding it according to ones wishes. It has every thing for every one.

 

[Yankee-stani]

Things get very feisty on PDF when religion comes up

 

[MultaniGuy]

You cannot reinterpret Islam bro. This is not Christianity or Judaism. Islam is something very complete. You cannot take Islam to be support for conservatives or liberals. But both sides have to balance them selves towards Islam. Consider Islam as a center point rather than moulding it according to ones wishes. It has every thing for every one.

You are correct. Islam is the final testament for mankind.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

You cannot reinterpret Islam bro.

http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/

 

[Valar.]

I am not asking you to gve it up. All I said for purposes of this disccusion can I have your thoughts about Iqbal's wish that Islam be re-interpreted in light of the present - modern world?

Not an expert of his work in slightest bit, but this is what I usually get:
Progressive people think Iqbal was a Reformist.
Conservative people think Iqbal was a Revivalist.

Me personally, I like his poetry/couplets about self motivation etc.

 

[MultaniGuy]

http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/

Probably you misunderstood allama Iqbal.

You cannot reinterpret Islam. It is what it is.

Anyways I have not read Allama Iqbal''s works. But I heard Allama Iqbal was a strong Muslim.