Islamic Culture
Allama Iqbal’s enduring appeal unparalleled
By J.S. Ifthekhar
What’s more, it is not curtains yet. Five hundred and going strong. Yes. Even after so many sessions the programme’s popularity has not waned. It was on October 8, 1997, that the first of “Mehfil-e-Iqbal Shinasi” was organised at the conference hall of Jama Masjid, Gunfoundry. Over the years the programme has gone from strength to strength with the circle of Iqbal aficionados increasing by the day.Interestingly, no other Urdu poet has bagged this honour. Even Pakistan can’t boast of such marathon poetic sittings. But why Iqbal? He is perhaps the best articulated Muslim response to modernity and represents the collective consciousness of the community. But the provocation for the programme was the failure of a well known Hyderabadi to recollect a famous Iqbal couplet during a meeting. As he struggled to recall the verse, a senior advocate, Ghulam Yazdani, present there wondered how posterity would remember the great poet when an elderly person was forgetting him.
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