Director Arts Council Waqar Ahmad said that Allama Iqbal gave a message of unity to the Muslim Ummah through his poetry. He is considered as a modern Sufi. His main tendency in poetry was towards ...

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On the evening, which was dedicated to Allama Iqbal, Sani distributed handouts of Indian novelist Khushwant Singh’s translation of Iqbal’s Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa.

NLPD’ director-general said Urdu is now a major language of the world. He also stressed the importance of promoting and understanding of different aspects of Iqbal’s poetry.

“We see it clearly in the Urdu poetry of Mir, Mir Dard, Iqbal and Faiz and even Ghalib who at one point had many of his verses heavily inspired by Hallaj’s life and martyrdom,” he said.

Ziauddin said though Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Urdu poetry was translated into the Hindko language by fellow writers such as Professor Hussam Hur and others in the past, late Khwaja Yaqoob Akhtar ...

BHU Urdu department head apologises for using poet Allama Iqbal’s photo on poster after controversy A group of students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad questioned why the ...