Muhammad Iqbal

May 30, 2023

The Academic Council of Delhi University recently passed a motion to remove a chapter on Pakistan’s national poet Muhammad Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, from the political science syllabus.
Born in 1877 in Sialkot in undivided India, Iqbal wrote the famous song ‘Saare jahan se achha’.
He is also known for giving birth to the ‘idea of Pakistan’.
He was knighted by King George V who gave him the title of “Sir” in 1922.
His first book, Asrár-I Khudí (The Secrets of the Self), was published in 1915. It was followed by Ramuz-e-Bekhudi (The Mysteries of Selflessness) in 1918.