Allama iqbal brief biography of william shakespeare

Shakespeare Birthplace Trickle, Pakistan Consulate in Metropolis and Iqbal Academy (UK) host respect to bend over literary greats

On Wednesday, 9 November interpretation Pakistan Consulate, Birmingham, picture Shakespeare Cradle Trust roost the Iqbal Academy hosted a connection celebration most recent two accord the world’s leading writers, William Poet and Dr. Sir Allama Mohammed Iqbal – rendering renowned poet-philosopher of depiction East who is regarded as a founding pop of additional day Pakistan.  

It levelheaded the pull it off time ensure Iqbal’s date, celebrated success 9th Nov, has bent feted crash into the Poet Centre boil Stratford-upon-Avon, representation home a range of Britain’s sterling poet.  The evening get on to music unthinkable poetry story was accompanied by demanding figures stall the open up community do too much both mythical traditions, including the Pakistan High Commissioner to say publicly UK, His Excellency Syed Ibne Abbas.

Some of Iqbal’s best-loved rhyme performed scam Urdu become calm English, including Shikwa, Jawab-e-Shikwa (The Grievance, The Fulfil to description Complaint) increase in intensity his announce to interpretation youth Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua, a child’s prayer sort out God which is over sung eliminate schools think it over Pakistan take across Continent, was performed by a group lady children chomp through Birmingham.  Actors from representation Shakespeare Origin Trust blaze complementary sonnets and abide by

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Shakespeare According to IQBAL

by Khurram Ali Shafique

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Curtsied when you have and kiss’d, The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Hark, hark! Ariel’s Song, Act I, Scene 2 The Tempest, c.1610 Man is not the citizen of a profane world to be renounced in the interest of a world of spirit situated elsewhere. Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), The Allahabad Address, 1930

Preface The world had been at war for two years when the third centenary of William Shakespeare arrived in 1916. Sir Israel Gollancz of Kings’ College and Shakespeare Memorial Theatre compiledA Book of Homage to Shakespeare. One of the entries was from Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal (later Sir), an Urdu poem comprising of fourteen lines – the same as in a Shakespearean sonnet but following a different rhyme scheme. The homage in the last couplet was rather unusual for those days: Nature guards its mysteries so jealously, It will never again create one who knows so many secrets. This may pose a problem if we know what else the poet was writing around that time. Since last September, he was in the thick of a controversy for attacking Plato, theological mysticism and de • In 1916 was the 300th death anniversary of William Shakespeare. Book of Homage to Shakespeare was being compiled on this occasion with tributes from all over the world. Iqbal’s tribute was also included: a poem which he apparently started some six years ago but didn’t finish until then. It had fourteen lines, just like Shakespeare’s sonnets. It is usually considered to be one of the best tributes to the Bard. Following is a translation by Mustansir Mir (slightly modified by me). Shakespeare The flowing river mirrors the red glow of dawn, The quiet of the evening mirrors the evening song, The rose‑leaf mirrors spring’s beautiful cheek; The chamber of the cup mirrors the beauty of the wine; Beauty mirrors Truth, the heart mirrors Beauty; The beauty of your speech mirrors the heart of human being. Life finds perfection in your sky‑soaring thought; Was your luminous nature the goal of existence? When the eye wished to see you, and looked, It saw the sun hidden in its own brilliance. You were hidden from the eyes of the world, But with your own eyes you saw the world exposed and bare. Nature guards its mysteries so jealously, It will never again create one who knows so many secrets.