Ideology with Respect to Allama Iqbal
IDEOLOGY WITH RESPECT TO ALLAMA IQBAL
THE ALL INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1906.TWO YEARS LATER THE BRITISH COMMITTEE OF THE ALL INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE LONDON BRANCH WAS ESTABLISHED BY SYED AMEER ALI(R.A).ALLAMA IQBAL PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE IN ITS PROCEEDINGS AND WAS ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF ITS EXECUTIVE BOARD.
THE RELATIONSHIP THEN ESTABLISHED WAS MAINTAINED THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
IQBAL’S TIRELESS EFFORTS FOR THE CAUSE OF THE MUSLIM NATION HOOD IN INDIA.HIS BEAUTIFUL POETRY AND INSPIRING PHILOSOPHY MADE HIM THE BELOVED POET-PHILOSOPHER OF THE SOTH ASIAN MUSLIMS FREEDOM MOVEMENT.
FOLLOWING ARE THE SALIENT FEATURES OF IQBAL’S IDEAS ABOUT MUSLIM NATIONHOOD IN INDIA:
FUNDAMENTALS OF AN ISLAMIC CONSTITUITION:
IQBAL OUTLINED TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES AN ISLAMIC CONSTITUITION WAS TO BE BASED UPON:
(a)“THE LAW OF ALLAH IS ABSOLUTELY SUPREME.AUTHORITY EXCEPT AN INTERPRETER OF THE LAW HAS NO PLACE IN THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OFG ISLAM.ISLAM HAS A HORROR OF PERSONAL AUTHORITY…”
(b)”ABSOLUTE EQUALITY OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY”.
HUMAN BROTHER HOOD:
COMMENTING UPON THE RACIAL PROBLEMS EMERGING IN ASIA NAD ELSEWHERE IQBAL SUGGESTED THAT ISLAM WAS THE ONLY REMEDY TO THIS VICE.HE SAID:
“THE MAIN ENDEAVOUR OF ISLAM AS A RELIGION HAS BEEN TO SOLVE THIS VERY PROBLEM AND IF MODERN ASIA WISHES TO AVOID THE FATE OF EUROPE, THERE IS NO OTHER REMEDY BUT TO ASSIMILATE THE IDEALS OF ISLAM AND TO THINK NOT IN TERMS OF RACE BUT IN TERMS OF MANKIND.”
ISLAM THE BASIS OF THE MUSLIM NATION HOOD:
IN 1908 IQBAL WROTE:
“…..ISLAM IS SOMETHING MORE THAN A CREED; IT IS ALSO A COMMUNITY, A NATION.THE MEMBERSHIP OF ISLAM AS A COMMUNITY IS NOT DETERMINED BY BIRTH.THE BASIS OF MUSLIM NATIONALITY COMBINES THE REAL AND THE IDEAL, THE CONCRETE AND THE ABSTRACT”.
FUTURE OF ISLAM AS THE NEW WORLD ORDER:
IN A STATEMENT ISSUED ON 26TH FEBRUARY 1933..IQBAL SAID:
“AFTER VISITING DIFFEREBT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND SEEING THE GENERAL MORAL CHAOS OF THE MODERN WORLD, I AM CONVINCED THAT
THE ALL INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1906.TWO YEARS LATER THE BRITISH COMMITTEE OF THE ALL INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE LONDON BRANCH WAS ESTABLISHED BY SYED AMEER ALI(R.A).ALLAMA IQBAL PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE IN ITS PROCEEDINGS AND WAS ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF ITS EXECUTIVE BOARD.
THE RELATIONSHIP THEN ESTABLISHED WAS MAINTAINED THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
IQBAL’S TIRELESS EFFORTS FOR THE CAUSE OF THE MUSLIM NATION HOOD IN INDIA.HIS BEAUTIFUL POETRY AND INSPIRING PHILOSOPHY MADE HIM THE BELOVED POET-PHILOSOPHER OF THE SOTH ASIAN MUSLIMS FREEDOM MOVEMENT.
FOLLOWING ARE THE SALIENT FEATURES OF IQBAL’S IDEAS ABOUT MUSLIM NATIONHOOD IN INDIA:
FUNDAMENTALS OF AN ISLAMIC CONSTITUITION:
IQBAL OUTLINED TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES AN ISLAMIC CONSTITUITION WAS TO BE BASED UPON:
(a)“THE LAW OF ALLAH IS ABSOLUTELY SUPREME.AUTHORITY EXCEPT AN INTERPRETER OF THE LAW HAS NO PLACE IN THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OFG ISLAM.ISLAM HAS A HORROR OF PERSONAL AUTHORITY…”
(b)”ABSOLUTE EQUALITY OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY”.
HUMAN BROTHER HOOD:
COMMENTING UPON THE RACIAL PROBLEMS EMERGING IN ASIA NAD ELSEWHERE IQBAL SUGGESTED THAT ISLAM WAS THE ONLY REMEDY TO THIS VICE.HE SAID:
“THE MAIN ENDEAVOUR OF ISLAM AS A RELIGION HAS BEEN TO SOLVE THIS VERY PROBLEM AND IF MODERN ASIA WISHES TO AVOID THE FATE OF EUROPE, THERE IS NO OTHER REMEDY BUT TO ASSIMILATE THE IDEALS OF ISLAM AND TO THINK NOT IN TERMS OF RACE BUT IN TERMS OF MANKIND.”
ISLAM THE BASIS OF THE MUSLIM NATION HOOD:
IN 1908 IQBAL WROTE:
“…..ISLAM IS SOMETHING MORE THAN A CREED; IT IS ALSO A COMMUNITY, A NATION.THE MEMBERSHIP OF ISLAM AS A COMMUNITY IS NOT DETERMINED BY BIRTH.THE BASIS OF MUSLIM NATIONALITY COMBINES THE REAL AND THE IDEAL, THE CONCRETE AND THE ABSTRACT”.
FUTURE OF ISLAM AS THE NEW WORLD ORDER:
IN A STATEMENT ISSUED ON 26TH FEBRUARY 1933..IQBAL SAID:
“AFTER VISITING DIFFEREBT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND SEEING THE GENERAL MORAL CHAOS OF THE MODERN WORLD, I AM CONVINCED THAT