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Prof. Sikandar is a great advocate of Islam. In all of his research works, he defended the Islamic worldview and the universal values preached by Islam against all accusations hurled by the West. He is a man of peace and could get along well with his colleagues and students. I have hardly heard him...

It was the brilliance of Iqbal, to capitalize on the use of poetry as a medium to express his ideas towards social reform because it was part of the culture of the people living in the subcontinent at that time to pass their leisure reading and listening to poetry in the media and in public gatherings....

Besides his criticism of Sufism and its doctrine on the Wahdah al-Wujūd that has assimilated foreign elements into Sufi practices, Iqbal also found other reasons for the shortcomings of the Muslim Ummah of his time. Much of his observation on the state of stagnation of the Ummah was seen extensively...

Besides his criticism of the West, Iqbal felt disturbed to witness the development that was taking place in the Muslim world. It saddened him to see the mushrooming of a kind of Sufism which preached to the masses to indulge zealously in all spiritual practices, and at the same time, either neglect...

One of the many orientalists whom Iqbal admired the most was Goethe (1796-1869). In fact, it was admitted by Iqbal himself that in writing the Payam-i-Mashriq he was inspired by Goethe’s famous collection of poems, ‘West-Oestlicher Divan’ (1818) (The West’s Admiration on the East). To Iqbal, Goethe...

Allama Iqbal was not only a great Muslim thinker and a statesman of distinguished quality; he was also a great poet and a mystic-philosopher. As a Muslim scholar during the Western era of colonization of the East, Iqbal’s intellectual ability and performance were not just meant for finding solutions...

Prolific Poet and Intelligent Writer During the many years of being a barrister, he was also actively involved in producing anthologies of poems and other philosophical works. As a poet, Iqbal was prolific in producing anthology after anthology. Although he was recognized by the world as one of the...

In winding up this short discussion on alcohol, I would humbly request people of the East and West to consider seriously what the Lancet medical journal findings say on alcohol. In addition to that, the quote from the video report says, “there is no such thing as safe drinking…… just like tobacco and...

As a reformist and educationist, Iqbal’s ideas were not just relevant to India alone. His ideas also found validity in neighbouring Afghanistan. In 1933, he was invited together with Sir Ross Masood and Sulaiman Nadvi by the Government of Afghanistan to re-evaluate the educational system in the country...

My journey into Iqbal’s philosophical world dates back to my high school days. As a young man, I was always on the go searching for something that could elevate my Islamic spirit. From those days to the present moment, I am a person who has a huge interest in topics like; human nature, God, and spirituality....