Interesting facts about Allama Iqbal:
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- iqbal spoke seven languages - german, persian, arabic, english, punjabi, urdu and sanskrit
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- Iqbal had two bachelors degrees, a masters, and a phd.....he also qualified as a lawyer from lincoln's inn......
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- iqbal's father was born a hindu (rattan lal); a kashmir brahiman.......and converted to islam (noor muhammad).....iqbal had two uncles and five aunts......all following hindu faith......
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- iqbal's father was a tailor.....
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- iqbal learned to play the sitar in school......
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- Iqbal didn't publish his first work of Urdu poetry - The Call of the Marching Bell (baang - e - daraa) till 1924.....14 years before his death....till then, all his publications were in farsi.....
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- iqbal's first book on poetry was in farsi, in 1915, when he was 38.......The Secrets of Self (israr-e-khudi)
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- iqbal wrote 12,000 verses of poetry......out of which 7,000 were in farsi......and 5,000 in urdu.....so he was primarily a farsi poet.....
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- - Iqbal didn't really consider himself a poet - "I have never considered myself a poet…I have no interest in the art of poetry. I have adopted the poem as a way of describing some issues pertinent to this country (British India).”....his main ambition seems to have been to reform Islamic thought at a global level........
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- Iqbal completed his PhD dissertation in the filed of philosophy from Germany......the title of his dissertation was, "The Development of Metaphysics in Persia"......his main
struggle was to bring intellectual reform in the muslim world, starting from iran......
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- Iqbal only book in English - Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam - was published 8 years before his death....it is compilation of his lectures on religion....
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- Iqbal wrote, "Taaran-e-Hind" at the age of 27....it remains a very popular tune in India, and is played by the Indian Armed forces Band on Independence day.....
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- iqbal's first daughter was born when he was 18 years old (and his wife was 21 years old).......his first daughter died when she was 19....
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- iqbal separated from his first wife after 23 years of marraige...
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- his famous son - justice javed iqbal - is from his second wife...
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- iqbal married a third time also (not sure if he separated from his second wife...maybe had two wives simultaneously)........
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- iqbal's third wife died ten years after marraige, along with a son, during childbirth.......
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- iqbal was knighted at the age of 45, and became Sir Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal Lahori.......the Sir from Britain......the Dr. from Germany....the Allama from India...and the Lahori from Iran........
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- in 1907, at the age of 30, to complete his PhD, Iqbal took German lessons from Fraulein Emma Wegenast.....
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- It is said Iqbal was in love with Emma......he would write to her after returning to Lahore, "I have forgotten all my German....but I remember only one word - Emma"....
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- Apparently, he was also very close to a lady name Atiya Faizi in London from his college days......."I am not conscious of what good you have done to me. This is true and better so....."
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- For the last four years of his life (1934 - 38) when he was sick and had stopped practicing law, Iqbal was given a pension by Nawab of Bhopal.......
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- after going through many intellectual journies, iqbal finally settled on maulana rumi as his guide and pir......
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- Iqbal has a holiday, medical college, a university campus, an airport, a stadium and many housing societies named after him.....( forwarded as received)
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