Iqbal, the Poet-Philosopher of Islamic Resurgence
This poem also strengthens my belief as to why Iqbal could not visit Iran. He considered Iran as a prison and addressed the people living here in the way the prisoners are addressed. There are plenty of poems in Iqbal’s collections which show his dissatisfaction with India at least the ...
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Read More »Iqbal, the Poet-Philosopher of Islamic Resurgence
I infer from these lines that he had been composing his Urdu poetry for quite a long time and was known to all Urdu-knowing people of the Subcontinent . But in my view Iqbal’s Persian poetry is to be regarded as one of the miracles of poetry. We have a ...
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