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Iqbal's Clarion Call !

   " And be it further said to the shame of us men of the older generation, that we have failed to equip the younger generation for the economic, political and even religious crisis that the present age is likely to bring.   The whole community needs a complete overhauling of its present mentality in order that it may again become capable of feeling the urge of fresh desires and ideals. "
--Allama Iqbal

Iqbal's Clarion Call !

The muslim poet-philosopher, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal addressing the All-India Muslim League as its president at the Lahore meeting on March 21, 1932, reminded the delegates of the Indian Muslims:

" The superb idealism of your faith needs emancipation from the medieval fancies of theologians and legists. Spiritually, we are living in a prison-house of thoughts and emotions, which during the course of centuries we have weaved around ourselves. And be it further said to the shame of us men of the older generation, that we have failed to equip the younger generation for the economic, political and even religious crisis that the present age is likely to bring. The whole community needs a complete overhauling of its present mentality in order that it may again become capable of feeling the urge of fresh desires and ideals. The Muslim has long ceased to explore the depths of his own inner life, and is consequently in danger of an unmanly compromise with forces which he is made to think he cannot vanquish in open conflict...
This then is the mulla_ peril, which indicates the urgent need for radical revision of the curriculum of the madrasahs which will provide for their students a more realistic and appreciative understanding of the times in which they live. Only by so doing can the mulla_ be fitted in spirit and in method to meet the demands of this new day for the community he serves ‘In the name of Allah!’ "

This is an excerpt from Allama Iqbal's 1932 Address. Alas, some seventy three years later, the remarks of one of the greatest Muslim visionaries are as true and applicable today as they were in his day and time !

Nasir Shamsi

 

 

 

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