In poetry, it is not words that have meaning, but the poet or listener who means something by them. A poet starts his poetic career as a person intellectually fashioned by a particular idiom, acquired ...

For the discerning eye you are an embodiment of Effulgence.

Considering that separate electorates posed the main hindrance to improving Hindu-Muslim relations, Quaid-i-Azam proposed that if the Hindus agreed to providing certain safeguards, the Muslims would ...

'Allamah Iqbal is a versatile, thoughtful and world-recognis­ed Persian poet, but many aspects of the exotic splendour of his art and thought have yet to be arranged and studied. One such aspect is a ...

Kant in showing the limitations of pure reason had also demonstrated the impossibility of ‘intuitive’ experience without which metaphysics and religion are not possible. But paradoxically enough in ...

As a social and religious thinker, Iqbal emphasises the unity of God and finality of prophethood. According to him nothing deserves to be made an object of love and worship except Allah. The greatest ...

(Meanings: Zinda Tammanna = Motivation; Qalb = Heart; Rooh = Soul; wadi-e-faran = Islamic nation; Chamka dey= Shine; shok-e-tamasha = Determination; Zoq-e-taqaza ...

The twilight’s eye is raining blood for the evening star ...

The word Faqr used by Iqbal has a peculiar significance. This word, in the Qur’an, stands for need, poverty, an attribute which men can possess while God is characterised by an attribute which is its ...

It is a common misbelief, engendered by the Western press and accepted uncritically by the Eastern scholars, that Iqbal was influenced, in certain very important respects, by Nietzsche to-wards the ...

Federal Secretary Syed Asif Ali Haider Shah took charge of the National Heritage and Culture Division. Syed Asif Ali Haider Shah is from Pakistan Administrative Services Group and was earlier serving ...

Picture Gallery of Allama Iqbal.