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Every Sunnah is Dhikr

O My Son! This time of yours is a great opportunity. And opportunity is a great blessing. Times passed in good health and without anxiety are rare windfalls. You must spend each hour with the dhikr of Allahu ta’ala. Every deed, even if it is shopping, which is agreeable with Rasulullah, is dhikr. Then, every action, every attitude must be agreeable with Rasulullah. In this case all will be dhikr

Sainthood not about miracles

Wali of high grade may be given no karamats or khariqas, or, karamats are given in order to increase yaqin (belief). A person blessed with yaqin does not need karamats or khariqas. All these karamats are inferior to the dhikr of Dhat-i ilahi and to the heart’s being ornamented with this dhikr

The Universality of Iqbal

It is interesting to note that whatever Iqbal said 50 years ago, is now being reflected in the writings of the liberal thinkers of West. In the light of the findings of the Reports of the Club of Rome, it is generally felt that capitalism as well as communism have failed to cope with under‑development on a global scale and that at present the most highly developed countries cannot, possibly offer any such social order which provokes the enthusiasm of man… Dr Javid Iqbal

Allama Iqbal’s tribute to Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi : An Approach

Out of this devotion for spirituality of Islam he visited the grave of Nizam ud Din waliya in Delhi in 1905 before he left for England for higher studies. In 1935, i.e. after the return from England and during the later of his life, Iqbal visited the grave of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi. What impressions he gathered from his visit to Sirhindi’s grave Iqbal expresses them in the context of the Indian Muslims heritage in his poem entitled, Punjab kay Peerzadun kay Naam. The poem is the symbolic expression of Shaykh Ahmad’s great personality of religious learning and `dynamism. Among other things Iqbal describes him as the guardian of the Muslim millah in India

Iqbal on New Ulema for a New Muslim Society

The problem of “conservatism” was handled in two ways in Turkey and Muslim India. In Turkey Kemal Ataturk eliminated the Ulema completely from the religious life of the Turks. But in Muslim India, Iqbal tried his best during his life time to educate and train the Ulema so as to create among them a group of new Ulema to provide a new motivation for Islam to the new Muslim society which he thought of bringing into being. …. by Dr. Javid Iqbal

Prelude in Heaven

Life out of the delight of absence and presence
fashioned forth this world of near and far;
so snapped asunder the thread of the moment
and mixed the hues of Time’s house of amazement.

Prayer

Man, in this world of seven hues,
lute-like is ever afire with lamentation;
yearning for a kindred spirit burns him inwardly
teaching him threnodies to soothe the heart,
and yet this world, that is wrought of water and clay—
how can it be said to possess a heart?

Introduction

JAVID NAMA - Versified English Translation by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. Translated from the Persian
with introduction and notes by ARTHUR J. ARBERRY
The Javid-nama is a description of a spiritual journey made by the poet, from earth through the ‘spheres’ of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, to beyond the ‘spheres’ and to the Presence of God. The antecedents of this heavenly adventure go back, within Islamic tradition, to the celebrated mi‘raj of the Prophet Mohammed, that famous legend of his Ascension the germs of which are to be traced in the Koran.

Global Appreciation of Iqbal

Focusing on the global appreciation of Allama Iqbal, this paper relates a comprehensive account of the celebration of Iqbal Day during the year 1952 as reported in the English newspapers of Pakistan. It is hoped that this endeavour would reveal to some extent the global appreciation of the great seer and statesman.

Do We Need Iqbal Today?

The question, ‘do we need Iqbal today?’ The reply is a clear ‘YES’. It is a. need of the time, because the honour of humanity is at stake. The preachers of human rights are abusing humanity. Masses of men are being trampled ruthlessly under the heavy feet of the powerful. There is dearth of love in the world these days. Iqbal is a messenger of love. His message of love is universal…the humanity needs him…we do need him without any doubt.

Kierkegaard And Iqbal

The Self is an integral part of a person. It is in one’s inner nature, which psychology does not grasp but it definitely exists and is real beyond any doubt. We can intuit Self; in fact only it is in intuition that the true nature of the Self is revealed. To Kierkegaard the Self is nucleus of our existence. Hesays that a person first learn to know himself before learning anything else. This single sentence of a great philosopher takes us into certain depth of the subject. He is not telling us to know the Self but wants us to learn how to know the Self before learning anything else. This particular knowledge i.e. how to know the Self is prerequisite towards knowing one own self. It is only after we acquire the required knowledge that we can move further on. After knowing the Self the man is able to proceed towards its development.

Influence of Indian Philosophy on Iqbal

It has been said that Iqbal did at times follow the style of Indian saints in some of his poems. Coming from a different religious and cultural background, yet to be able to do this with a seeming level of perfection, is in itself a marvellous achievement. For, it comes with the grandeur of being the profound bridge, not only between two widely different cultural fountainheads, and but also to an antiquity that reaches out to the boundless past.
India has cradled varying cultures, of many hues and shades. Even Islamic culture, which should have been of an exotic quality here, has been buoyed-up. The Sufis, who steadfastly stood for the cause of universal wellbeing, were the creation of this intermingling of Islam and the local Indian cultural inputs. No one can say that the Sufis are non-Indians. They remain an indispensable element of Indian historical evolution, existing as strong stepping-stones of Indian cultural landscape. What they stood for was not for any mean ambitions, but for the emancipation of the huge mass of people who were living in trampled social conditions. What they said has remained since, as illuminating messages for the whole of humanity.

Iqbal on Lord Krishna and Ram

It was Iqbal’s confirmed conviction that Sree Krishna was the one of the messengers of God. He traced the visible miseries of India, to the fact that the messages of Krishna were being totally ignored. His beliefs went further to include even Sree Ram also. He envisioned Sree Ram as the ‘Spiritual Leader of the Indian Peninsula’. In his poem ‘The Call of the Caravan bell’, he wrote of Ram as the ‘Philosopher of the Easterners’.

വിദ്യയും മതാനുഭവവും

ഡോ. അല്ലാമാ മുഹമ്മദ്‌ ഇഖ്ബാല്‍

വിവ: അഷ്‌റഫ്‌

നാം ജീവിക്കുന്ന പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിന്‍രെ സ്വഭാവവും പൊതുഘടനയുമെന്താണ്‌? അതിന്റെ സംവിധാനത്തില്‍ സ്ഥായിയായ വല്ല ഘടകവുമുണ്ടോ? നാം അതുമായി എങ്ങനെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു? നമുക്കിതിലെയെന്തു സ്ഥാനമാണുള്ളത്‌? നാം വസിക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലത്തിനനുയോജ്യമായ സ്വഭാവങ്ങളെന്തൊക്കെയാണ്‌? ഇത്തരം ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ മതം, തത്ത്വചിന്ത, സവര്‍ണ കവിത എന്നവയില്‍ സാധാരണമാണ്‌. കാവ്യതാല്‍പര്യങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌ ലഭിക്കുന്ന അറിവ്‌ പ്രധാനമായും വ്യക്തികേന്ദ്രീകൃതമാണ്‌. അത്‌ അലങ്കാരികവും അവ്യക്തവും അനിര്‍വചനീയവുമാണ്‌. മതം അതിന്റെ ഔന്നിത്യത്തില്‍ കവിതക്കുമുകളിലാമ്‌. അത്‌ വ്യക്തിയില്‍ നിന്ന്‌ സമൂഹത്തിലേക്ക്‌ പ്രവഹിക്കുന്നു.

മൌലാനാ അലീമിയാന്‍: പുണ്യകുടുംബത്തിന്‍ പരമ്പരയിലൂടെ…

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Development of Personality

Speech by Mohammed Zaheeruddin, (Vice President, Iqbal Academy Hyderabad) given during his visit to Sharjah in May 2006. (43 mins)

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