ALLAMA IQBAL

Allama Iqbal was born on 19th November at Sialkot in 1877.

His parents Noor Muhammad and Imam Bibi were pious and
religious persons.
He passed his matriculation and intermediate exams in
1893 and 1895 respectively. He did his B.A from
Government College Lahore in 1897 and M.A in philosophy
in 1899. He took his Doctorate Degree from Munich . His
thesis was "Philosophy Of Ajam". After talking his Barrister's
Degree from London In 1908 he returned home.
After returning from England he started practice as a
Barrister in 1908. The poet was born in him from early age.
He wrote poetry under inspiration. He had written poetry in
Urdu and Persian. Allama Iqbal has left valuable treasures of
Poetry after him. The following are famous poetic works of
Iqbal: Israr Khudi (1915), Ramuz-e-Bekhudi (1918)
Paigham-e-Mashriq (1923), Javed Nama (1932) and Musafir
(1934) are his great works in Persian. Bange-e-Dira (1924)
Bal-e-Jibrael (1935) and Zarb-e-Kaleem (1936) are famous
collections in Urdu. The famous Prose collection of Iqbal's
lectures is The Reconstruction Of Religious Thoughts In
Islam.
Iqbal was a great mystic . The poet of lived a very
simple and contented life. His talks were full of wisdom and
humor. He generally shunned poet's gatherings (Mushairas).
He was indifferent to wealth and fame. Iqbal had good
command on English, German and Arabic Languages .
He was greatly moved on seeing the down-
troddenness and miserable condition of the Indian Muslims.
He kept away from practical politics. But seeing the
conditions of ummat-e-Muslaman, he came forward to serve
them. He inspired them with his poetry. He was also elected
to the Punjab Legislature in 1928. He attended round table
confidences at London in 1931-32.
It was Allama Iqbal who for the first time presented the idea
of separate Home-Land (Pakistan) for the Indian Muslims.
He was the originator of the two-nations theory. He was not
only poet and great thinker but also a great moralist, a
reformer and an educationist. Iqbal breathed his last on 21st
april 1938 and is buried in the compound of grand Badshahi
Mosque Lahore.