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The PACAC pays tribute to Allama Iqbal
Pak American Culture & Arts Council held a literary evening on October 22, 2011 to celebrate the life and work of the Poet of the East, Allama ohammad Iqbal.
The event, held at the Kabab Corner Restaurant in West Sacramento, attracted a large number of literary enthusiasts.
Maqsood Ahmad welcomed the guest on behalf of the Council.
Naeem Syed was the MC of the program.
A number of maqalas were presented to highlight the life and work of the great Urdu poet Allama Iqbal while his popular poems were recited. Among those who presented Iqbal’s poetry and spoke about his work included:
Dr. Nirmal Maan, Dr. Zia Zafir, Huma Kazmi, Farah, Javid Iqbal, Maqsood Ahmed, Rukhsana Riaz, Sami, Shahzad Basir and Tulaib.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal is one of most outstanding poet, writer, intellectual and thinkers of modem times and revered by in South Asia as Shair-i-Mashriq (The Poet of the East). Allama Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877 in Sialkot. He held a brilliant academic record. He did his Masters in Philosophy from Government College, Lahore and joined there as a lecturer. He left for Europe in 1905 and studied Philosophy and Law at the Trinity College, Cambridge, Lincolin's Inn, London and the Munich University. He was awarded a 'Ph.D' by the Munich University.
After returning from Europe in 1908, Iqbal taught philosophy at Government College Lahore for a few years. In 1911 he resigned from government service and set up legal practice. Meanwhile he continued to write poetry in Urdu and Persian, Asrar-i Khudi (Persian) was published in 1915. Translated into English as The Secrets of the Self (1920) by Professor Reynold Nicholson of Cambridge, the book introduced Iqbal to the West. Asrar-i Khudi was followed by several other volumes: Rumuz-i Bikhudi (1918), Payam-i Mashriq (1923), Bang-i Dara (1924), Zabur-i ‘Ajam (1927), Javid Namah (1932), Musafir (1936), Zarb-i Kalim (1937), and Armaghan-i Hijaz (1938, posthumously). Iqbal wrote prose also. His doctoral thesis, The Development of Metaphysics in Persia, was published in 1908, and his Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam in 1934.
His verses in Urdu and Persian and his monumental treatises have been translated into almost all the important languages of the world and found wide recognition in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Italy, USSR and many other countries.
Allama Iqbal died on April 21, 1938 in Lahore at the age of 60.
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