write a long essay on iqbal's message
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Allama Iqbal’s message which had filled millions of Muslims with revolutionary zeal and galvanised them into action, has been all-but-forgotten in Pakistan. How could this happen when so many Pakistanis love Iqbal’s poetry which they often quote, and when both Iqbal’s birthday and death anniversary are nationally commemorated?
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Iqbal’s message was a powerful source of inspiration when Pakistan came into existence in 1947, and in its early years. Every morning Radio Pakistan would broadcast Iqbal’s prayer for children which left a permanent imprint on their minds. However, after some time, this prayer with which children began their day, ceased to be broadcast, and there are very few children today who are familiar with it.Why has Iqbal suffered such amazing neglect in the country where he is hailed as the “spiritual” founder? To answer this question, one has to understand the moral, intellectual, social and political degeneration that, unfortunately, has characterised most of Pakistan’s history. Iqbal, the undaunted thinker who urged the oppressed masses to revolt against all forms of totalitarianism — religious, political, cultural, intellectual, economic or any other — was the vital force that was needed to free the Indian Muslims from their internal shackles and external bondage. But his words, his voice, his message, constituted a grave threat to those power-wielders in Pakistan who wanted to keep the people subservient, so that they would not challenge them or claim their own rights. To achieve this end they had to silence Iqbal’s anti-authoritarian voice as much as possible. The relegation of Iqbal’s vision and message to obscurity was, therefore, not by accident but by design.