Allama Iqbal Essay In English
Allama Iqbal is national poet of Pakistan. Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born in Sialkot on November 9, 1877. His forefathers came from Kashmir. His father Shaikh Noor Muhammad was a pious man. He passed his Intermediate examination from Murray College, Sialkot.
Syed Mir Hassan taught him Arabic, Persian and Islamic studies. He did his M.A. in Philosophy from the Government College, Lahore. He went abroad for higher education. He had the degree of Bar-at-Law. He went to Germany and got a degree of Ph.D. He came back to his country.
He wrote many poems to awake the Muslims. The Muslims were poor, uneducated and lived in very unhappy conditions. Being the national poet and a thinker, he taught the Muslims a sense of self-respect, In 1930 at Allahbad, he gave the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims of India.
He passed away on the 21st of April, 1938. He was buried outside the Badshahi Masjid in Lahore. Bang-e-Dara, Baal-e-Jibraeel, Zarb-e-Kaleem and Javed Nama are his famous books.