Allama Muhammad Iqbal Great Poet of East

Raise thyself to such a height that before issuing each decree GOD himself may ask His slave: “What is thy pleasure?” It is this doctrine of “Khudi” which Iqbal has propounded and explained at length in his famous Mathnawi Asrar-i-Khudi ...

Among the Persian poets of modern times Iqbal (d. 1938) stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries. A disciple and admirer of Girami, a contemporary scholar and poet of Jullundur, who was nevertheless a polished artist and had the distinction ...