ALLAMA IQBAL AND QAZI NAZRUL’S CONTRIBUTION TO MUSLIM DIGNITY
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ALLAMA IQBAL AND QAZI NAZRUL’S CONTRIBUTION TO MUSLIM DIGNITYQazi Nazrul Islam (1899 - 1976) was the great Muslim poet of Bengal. His contributions in the fields of sub-continent politics, Bangla literature, culture and the Muslim renaissance in South-Asian sub continent were substantive, deep and unique.
His literary activities were spread over a period of about twenty-five years from 1917 to 1942.(') His writings had great robustness and boldness. At childhood, Nazrul Islam lost his father and had little support to survive from poverty in the early part of the twentieth century. At the age of eight Nazrul passed the lower Primary examination from the ‘maktab' (2) (religious institute). His knowledge of Muslim heritage and respect for Islam was deepened and strengthened following his employment as 'khadim’ (') or attendant at a ‘dargah’ of 'Haji Pahelwan’ after his religious education. Later on he cultivated poetry while he was at Naushera (N.W.F.P.) and Karachi as sepoy of British Bengal 49'h Regiment during First World War. It is reported by Azharuddin Khan in his book 'Bangla Sahitye Nazrul’ (1997) that one 'Moulavi’ (religious
zharuddin Khan, Bangla Sahitya Nazrul, (Calcutta: Supreme Publisher, 1997), p. 249.Ibid., p. 3. Ibid. p. 4. ALLAMA IQBAL AND QAZI NAZRJ_JL’S COITI'RIBUTION TO MUSLIM DIGNITY. cleric) from present Palsistan’s Punjab, employed in the Bengal Regiment, recited Diwan-i-Hafiz to Nazrul. Nazrul learnt Persian from the Moulavi as well to educate himself on Hafiz and gained sufficient knowledge of ghazal. Nazrul’s literary career infact blossomed at Karachi, though he started writing poems at his birth place Churulia in Bengal (Now in India). Also, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal is a great thinker of the Muslim world. He holds a very prominent place among the whole line of the Muslims philosophers, though his place is unique in so far as the current century is concerned, for there is hardly any contemporary Muslim thinker who can match with him. this amply accounts for the high and prestigious position he enjoys, not only among the Muslims of the Sub-continent, but throughout the world of Islam. He is not only a great Muslim thinker, but also one of the most notable philosophers in the world today, because very few philosophers have exercised so deep and vast an impact on their contemporary world. Though the expressed his thought through poetry also, he is basically a philosopher; poetry being only a medium of expression with him, and he nowhere claims to be a poet. Moreover, in him the poet and the philosopher are not separate; they are the warp and woof of his very personality. However, both poetry and philosophy are means with him; the iiltimate aim being life and religion. To Iqbal, religion, philosophy and higher poetry deals with the same problems, though their respective approaches and methods differ. What is why he is rightly called the philosopher of life and action, and is one of the important vita lists of his own times. Iqbal and Nazarul both aim at raising the Muslim dignity in
Qazi Nazrul Islam (1899 - 1976) was the great Muslim poet of Bengal. His contributions in the fields of sub-continent politics, Bangla literature, culture and the Muslim renaissance in South-Asian sub continent were substantive, deep and unique.
His literary activities were spread over a period of about twenty-five years from 1917 to 1942.(') His writings had great robustness and boldness. At childhood, Nazrul Islam lost his father and had little support to survive from poverty in the early part of the twentieth century. At the age of eight Nazrul passed the lower Primary examination from the ‘maktab' (2) (religious institute). His knowledge of Muslim heritage and respect for Islam was deepened and strengthened following his employment as 'khadim’ (') or attendant at a ‘dargah’ of 'Haji Pahelwan’ after his religious education. Later on he cultivated poetry while he was at Naushera (N.W.F.P.) and Karachi as sepoy of British Bengal 49'h Regiment during First World War. It is reported by Azharuddin Khan in his book 'Bangla Sahitye Nazrul’ (1997) that one 'Moulavi’ (religious
zharuddin Khan, Bangla Sahitya Nazrul, (Calcutta: Supreme Publisher, 1997), p. 249.Ibid., p. 3. Ibid. p. 4. ALLAMA IQBAL AND QAZI NAZRJ_JL’S COITI'RIBUTION TO MUSLIM DIGNITY. cleric) from present Palsistan’s Punjab, employed in the Bengal Regiment, recited Diwan-i-Hafiz to Nazrul. Nazrul learnt Persian from the Moulavi as well to educate himself on Hafiz and gained sufficient knowledge of ghazal. Nazrul’s literary career infact blossomed at Karachi, though he started writing poems at his birth place Churulia in Bengal (Now in India). Also, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal is a great thinker of the Muslim world. He holds a very prominent place among the whole line of the Muslims philosophers, though his place is unique in so far as the current century is concerned, for there is hardly any contemporary Muslim thinker who can match with him. this amply accounts for the high and prestigious position he enjoys, not only among the Muslims of the Sub-continent, but throughout the world of Islam. He is not only a great Muslim thinker, but also one of the most notable philosophers in the world today, because very few philosophers have exercised so deep and vast an impact on their contemporary world. Though the expressed his thought through poetry also, he is basically a philosopher; poetry being only a medium of expression with him, and he nowhere claims to be a poet. Moreover, in him the poet and the philosopher are not separate; they are the warp and woof of his very personality. However, both poetry and philosophy are means with him; the iiltimate aim being life and religion. To Iqbal, religion, philosophy and higher poetry deals with the same problems, though their respective approaches and methods differ. What is why he is rightly called the philosopher of life and action, and is one of the important vita lists of his own times. Iqbal and Nazarul both aim at raising the Muslim dignity in
