On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 9:50:51 AM UTC-5, shakeelah...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 8:32:47 PM UTC+5, Satish Kumar wrote:

Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a stooge of British imperialism. He spent his
time indulging in adultery and fornication in spite of the fact that
he had multiple wives. And he had no qualms about preaching his
misogynist beleifs.

Sir Muhammad Iqbal literally got away with murder when the British
rulers chose to look the other way when he murdered a prostitute in
Hira Mandi.

And, BTW, Sir Muhammad Iqbal has much to teach young Pakistanis in
quest for carnal experiences. Here are excerpts from an article on his
sex life:

Translation of - Allama Iqbal-Ek Mehbooba, teen beewiaN, chaar shadiaN
- by Dr. Khalid Sohail

Allama Iqbal and His Women
Translation By Rafi Aamer

Excerpt:

While living with three wives, Iqbal continued his correspondence with Atiya Faizi. Iqbal's love life was so typical of the life of an
Eastern poet; he couldn't marry the woman he loved and he couldn't
love the women he married.

Iqbal never moved to Europe but he maintained contacts with European ladies. They used to come over to India and meet Iqbal and Iqbal
showed equal enthusiasm meeting them. After the death of Sardar Begum, instead of hiring an Indian woman, Iqbal hired a German governess for Javed and Muneera who used to call her aunt Doris. It seems that Doris
was serving dual purpose of looking after the kids and assuaging
Iqbal's nostalgia about Europe.

As a psycho-therapist, Iqbal's love life came to me as a surprise. I
am surprised to note that The Poet of the East, who had a solution for every problem afflicting his nation, remained clueless about the
solutions of his own romantic and marital problems. I find it hard to believe that he got separated from his first wife and their kids after sixteen years of marriage, that he divorced his second wife based only
on anonymous letters, that he realized that he was deceived only after
he had consummated his marriage with his third wife, and more surprisingly, that he sought an edict from a cleric and then ignored
the edict before marrying Sardar Begum a second time.

I guess Iqbal must have concluded from these experiences that it was easier for him to have a successful creative life than a successful marital life. Words came easy to Iqbal but the answers to the tough questions of his romantic dilemmas did not. Maybe that is why he
wrote,

Iqbal baRa updeshak hai, mun baton main moh laita hai.
Guftaar ka yeh ghazi to bana, kirdaar ka ghazi ban naa saka.

Had the "Allama" been alive, he would have had a gala time not just at
the Orangi and Hira Mandi brothels but even with the widows and the children of "martyrs" who are proliferating by the day in Pakistan.

The following two books by the scholar W.C.Smith provide some
illuminating insights into Iqbal's misogynist mindset:

1. Modern Islam In India, Victor Gollancz, London, 1946
2. Islam In Modern History, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1957

Iqbal's personality development was for men only. Smith wrote that
even at "his most poetic, his most progressive, his most inclusively utopian" moments, Iqbal left women of the world out of his dynamic new world.

Smith went on to write, "For women, he wanted no activism, no freedom. Iqbal kept his own wives in purdah and untiringly preached to the
world his conception of the ideal woman."

In Javid-Namah, Iqbal satirized a western woman who addresses other
women as:

"Ladies! Mothers! Sisters!
How long shall you live as beloveds?
Belovedness is sheer privation:
It is suffering of oppression and tyranny."

Iqbal epitomized his conception of the ideal woman in his ode to the Prophet's daughter (translation by Smith):

"The chaste Fatimah is the harvest of the field of submission,
is a perfect model for mothers,
So touched was her heart for the poor,
That she sold her own wrap.
She who might command the spirits of heaven and hell
Merged her own will in the will of her husband.
Her upbringing was in courtesy and forbearance:
And, murmuring the Koran, she ground corn."

Sir Allama Iqbal was a stooge of British imperialism and can indeed
show two possible alternatives for today's Pakistan - either it can be
a tooge of the Talibans and Al Qaedas or a stooge of Saudi Arabia
(unless "you are with us or against us" ultimatum from abroad makes
the question moot).

Mr. Farid S. Rahman (a Bangladeshi I presume) has thoroughly exposed
Sir Muhammad Iqbal the British stooge in this newsgroup. I am
reposting his input to this thread. Particularly shameful was the "Allama's" nexus with the Punjab Governor, Michael O'Dwyer of Jalianwalabag infame.

For the reader's reference, this post is appended with some excerpts
from Iqbal's "loyalist" poems, so that nettors can judge for
themselves the true nature of the "Allma".

Iqbal, the stooge of British imperialism, agreed to be knighted in
1922 at the height of the Khilafat movement. Here's a quote
representative of the reaction of true nationalists:

"Pity! Iqbal stooped to knighthood from an Allama. He used to be the
crown of the community. Iqbal has now become a knight of the British crown." - Malik (ed), Iqbal, p. 27.

The "Allama", with his feudal baggage, was a natural stooge of the
British imperialists who gratefully rewarded him with knighthood. And
the "Allama" gladly accepted it in the midst of the Khilafat movement. This is in stark contrast to a Bengali poet who had renounced
knighthood in 1919 to protest the Jalianwalabagh massacre in the Allamah''s Punjab. No surprise there for hadn't the "Allama" aligned himsel with the pro-British faction of the Muslim League? So
much for Iqbal's patriotism.

The "Allama's" loyalist views showed up most crassly in his dealings
with Punjab Governor Sir Michael O'Dwyer of Jalianwalabag massacre
infamy.

At the request of that infamous Sir Michael O'Dwyer, governor of the Punjab, Iqbal chose to eulogize the empire in the wake of the infamous Rowlatt Act. The eulogy was read out in 1918. In it, addressing the
King of England, Iqbal says:

"If there is freedom of speech and writing here, if there is peace
between the Temple and the Mosque here,

"If there is an organised system of business of the various peoples
here, if there is strength in the dagger and life in the sword here,

"Whatever there is, it has been granted by you, O honoured one, this
land is alive only because of your existence.

"I am the tree of loyalty, love is my fruit, a just witness to this statement are my actions.

"Sincerity is selfless, so is truth selfless, so is service, and so is devotion selfless,

"Pledge, loyalty and love are also selfless, and devotion to the royal throne is also selfless,

"But being human the thought which arises naturally is, that your
favours are manifest upon India."

This was published in the paper Akhbar-i Haq, the magazine Zamana of Kanpur, and the book Hindustan aur Jang 'Alamgir (`India and the World War') by L. Ralya Ram. It was then published in Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, on
pages 216 to 219. It was first read out by Dr. Iqbal himself at the
Punjab University Hall, Lahore.

This wasn't an isolated event. When Muslim League broke apart in 1927, Iqbal chose to side with the pro-British faction and presided over the rump.

Iqbal indeed has a long history of licking British boots. He wrote
many a poem in praise and adulation of the British rulers of India.

Upon the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Dr. Iqbal penned an
epicedium of ten pages, entitled `Tears of Blood'. The Queen died on
the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, and Iqbal wrote:

"Happiness came, but grief came along with it,Yesterday was Eid, but
today muharram (Month of the year associated with the deepest mourning
for Muslims) came.

"Easier than the grief and mourning of this day,
Would be the coming of the morn of the day of judgment.

"Ah! the Queen of the realm of the heart has passed away,
My scarred heart has become a house of mourning.

"O India, thy lover has passed away,
She who sighed at thy troubles has passed away.

"O India, the protective shadow of God has been lifted from above you,
She who sympathised with your inhabitants has gone.

"Victoria is not dead as her good name remains, this is the life to whomever God gives it.

"May the deceased receive abundant heavenly reward, and may we show
goodly patience."

(Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, Poem runs over pages 71– 90.)

In December 1911, on the occasion of the coronation of King George V, Iqbal wrote and read out a poem entitled `Our King':

"It is the height of our good fortune,
That our King is crowned today.

"By his life our peoples have honour,
By his name our respect is established.

"With him have the Indians made a bond of loyalty,
On the dust of his footsteps are our hearts sacrifced."
(Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, p. 206.)

I am not surprised that someone like mu-ham-mad Javed Ekball must
fulfill the needs of his spirit with the works of the "Allama", verily
a running dog of British imperialism.

For the time being, let me tell one-pubic-hair of Karachi "for us our
deen and for you yours".

Sir Muhammad Iqbal's loyalty to India's colonial masters makes it very clear why he literally got away with murder when he killed a
prostitute at Hira Mandi.

Only accusations and bad mouthing was done in the article, nothing concrete or evidence against Allama for alleged murder of a whore was given by the some Arya Samaji Hindutwa. Rubbish article.

Uhum You should know he was knighted...Like your buddy Salman Rushdie..Hope both burn for the crimes they have commited against Allah.

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