IN a romantic Ghazal, Pakistani philosopher and poet Mohamed Iqbal has addressed the Arab and the non-Arab World with great passion where is the Arab who will bring back the golden period? He has lost his selfhood and has become colorless deprived (...)
During Pakistani poet and philosopher Mohamed Iqbal's times, the Arab World was in the process of erosion. A number of Arab countries were under European domination. The countries of the Ottoman Empire were also looking for their separate identity. (...)
The idea of the origin of knowledge from Arabia has been presented by Pakistani poet Mohamed Iqbal again and again.
In a long poem entitled A Traveller (Masnawi Musafir published 1934), he presented this thought while addressing Zahir Shah. (October (...)
You must have seen the beehive. You are aware of the taste and colour of honey. You also know that the honey gets this colour after so many days of hard work and sacrifices of the bees.
But have you ever realised that the flowers, which contribute (...)
IN Rome, a former pontiff gave a Muslim poet and philosopher some words of wisdom. He said: “Every nation prepares the recipe for its own destruction. You, the Muslims, were destroyed by your worship of fatalism. We, the Romans, were destroyed by (...)
THE writer also pointed out, as mentioned in last Wednesday's article, that the Muslim countries are totally in the dark about the research work in each other's institutions. This results in useless repetition, and loss of funds and energies.
If the (...)
THE region of Syria has been associated with our history and literature in the same way the tradition of Islamic civilisation has been associated with sub-continent.
The region of Syria (Balad Sham) is an elaborate term which included Palestine, (...)