Muhammad Iqbal

Renouncing spiritual ignorance, returning to the one, that is the religion called Islam.

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But let's go and talk to our first guest of the morning.

We have got with us Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, who is...

He's a historian.

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a world-renowned poet.

He is owned by the Irani people because part of his amazing poetry was in Persian.

It challenges historiography for sure.

And I feel like, for me, this community is sitting in a very strange, contentious, middle ground position between the Muhammad Iqbal idea that Muslims have to reinvent or somehow do something about the shock that has come from colonialism.

And on the other hand, they also want to become a discrete community, maintaining or getting upwards in hierarchy in some way or the other.

I don't want to spend a lot of time on the genealogy because you have already answered it beautifully.

Can you believe? And as I mentioned over two weeks or three weeks ago, the Khilafah movement brought together great giants and intellectuals.

Abul Kalam Azad, the Ali brothers were there, right? Iqbal was a little bit also involved with this movement.

And that movement fizzled out, but it gave birth to the idea of Pakistan, interestingly enough, right? So that was a different thing.

But this is before the Khilafah collapsed.

And one of the main goals wasn't just the Khilafah, it was Zionism, opposing Zionism, saving Masjid Al-Aqsa before it is too late.

And once again, Maulana Shaukat Ali from India traveled all the way to Jerusalem.

Not only this, Allama Iqbal came to participate.

Allama Iqbal came to Jerusalem in 1931, and he part- he wasn't in Mecca.

Pakistan is founded more on the line of S. Ahmed Khan than anybody else.

And Allama Iqbal, is a direct reaction to the colonization.

These types of thinkers in Egypt as well, you had great thinkers come, Abdul Rashid Ridha, and I know they have their critics, but they gave a new spirit and from them so many people rediscovered Islam.

From the thought of Rashid Rida, you had so many people, Hasan al-Banna came, and across the world people have a new idea of how to bring Islam back.

So I don't have much information on that side of my family.

I do know that my family has a connection with Muhammad Iqbal.

He's a Persian poet, I believe, and a bunch of poets and writers.

But that was more like 100 years ago, around that time.