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contribution of alama iqbal

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Contributions of Allama Iqbal in the independenceof Pakistan
Dr. Mohammad Iqbal, the Islamic poet-philosopher who played such a vital role in the birth of Pakistan, was the first to advocate the formation of independent Muslim state for thesubcontinent. In 1!", in his capacity as President of the Muslim #ea$ue, Iqbal was the first touse a political platform to launch the concept of a separate homeland for Muslims. I haveresearched, selected, and annotated a few thou$hts for you to learn more about our profoundthinker. %s a poet Iqbal represented in perhaps the most sensitive manner, the collective consciousness of his people durin$ a certain period of their history.&orn in 'ovember 1()) in *ialkot, Iqbal achieved hi$h proficiency in %rabic and Persianlan$ua$es at an early a$e. %fter completin$ $raduate studies in philosophy, he became a colle$electurer in #ahore at the a$e of +. #ater he moved to ambrid$e, n$land for hi$her studies andearned Ph.D. from Munich /niversity, 0ermany at the a$e of !".If we a$ree with Iqbals thesis, we must believe that revelation as a source of knowled$ediscontinued after 2!+ .. and the only source of knowled$e now available to us is sense perception and reasonin$ by which we can both understand 0ods will as enunciated in the3uran and *unnah and create new knowled$e to predict and control the natural and social phenomena for purposes of better survival of the humankind. /nfortunately, many Muslims, presumably out of an$er towards their recent colonial past, want to discard all modernknowled$e, labelin$ it as 4western, and strive to di$ out a certain prescription for all our socialills throu$h reli$ious intuition or e5tra-sensory perception 6 an obsurantist and obviously futileeffort.If Muslims had heeded for the last )" years Iqbals advice and considered scientific advancementas an act of prayer, the road map of world power today would have been very different. %bdul3adeer 7han, the nuclear scientist of Pakistan, and his team seem to be the only si$nificante5ception in this re$ard. 8f course scientific inquiry is limited to material, ob9ective andverifiable reality. &ut 3uran forbids us from strivin$ to know the metaphysical and supernaturalreality that it refers to in the verses not entirely clear which are searched for their hiddenmeanin$s only by those in whose hearts there is a deviation. :!;)< %llah has required of us only belief in the unseen.=If one were to reconstruct the form of Islam, which has been made to de$enerate over the courseof history, re-assemble it in such a way that its spirit could return to a complete body, andtransform the trumpet of Israfil were to blow in the +"th century over a dead society and awaken