Dr. Mohammad Iqbal was born at Sialkot on November
9. 1877) His father was a mystic from where he inherited mysticism. Though his
father was not so educated, but he had a great desire to see his son properly
educated.
He received his early education at a local high
school and passed Intermediate Examination from Murray College Sialkot. After
passing his M.A., he became a lecturer in philosophy in the Government College,
Lahore. He then proceeded to England for higher studies in 1905. Obtained the
degree of Bar-at-Law from the Cambridge University He also prepared a thesis on
Persian Philosophy which earned him doctorate from the Cambridge and the Munich
Universities.
He returned to India and joined the bar. But could
not do well. This was because of the fact that at heart he was a man of letters
and not of law. The poet in him who had been nourished and nurtured from his
boyhood days took the better of the lawyer in him. .and he turned his attention
to poetry which had been as it were. His life blood. He was a poet and
philosopher combined and the ideas convened through his Bange-Dara, Bale-Jib
reel, Israr-e-Khudi. Pa amen Mashrique and a host of others were new and very
appealing. Through his thoughtful and philosophical writing imbued with the
spirit of Islam, he brought a new life to the Muslims of India and opened their
eyes to what they then were and what they could be. His poetic fervor inspired
the Muslims from one end of India to the other with a new life, new feelings
and new inspirations.
Dr. Iqbal was great Muslim thinker and poet. He was
a poetic reformer and as such, he could not but take interest in the politics
of the day to safeguard the interests of the Muslim He was a member of the Punjab
Legislative, Assembly and attended the Round 1 able Conference in London. In
1930. He presided over the Allahabad session of the All India Muslim League where
he represented the Idea of’ Pakistan.
Dr. Iqbal died in Lahore on the 21st of April.
1938. At the age of sixty live His dream of a separate homeland for the Muslims
could not be fulfilled during his life-time; it materialized only nine years
after his death.