IQBAL'S GLORIOUS IMBIBE : IQRA

'' Founder Haly, Oh, God, Yes! Proud Pakistan and Philosopher Iqbal would be ever, sterling proud of you, and your very beautiful family. Please, accept my heartfelt wishes and prayers.''

THE REST ? : READ AGAIN! [ KHUDI voh behr hai jis ka koi kinara nahi''. [ The self is an ocean without a shore ].

This is Iqbal's rejoinder to Nietzsche, yes, '' God is dead '' in the modern imagination but the divine pulse still throbs in the human self.

The Ubermensch becomes the Mard-i-Momin, the believer whose creative will is not nihilistic but sacred.

Iqbal's Bergsonian inheritance is clear ; being, for him, is elan vital, creative movement, the ceaseless surge of divine life. 

But where Bergson stops at intuition, Iqbal goes further, intuition : intuition must become the love  ['ishq'] not mere effect, but a metaphysical energy that propels being into creation.

His sources are not exclusively European. His imagination is also rooted in the Persian mystic tradition - in Rumi's dance of becoming, in Hafez's intoxicated love, in the luminous defiance of Mansour aI-Hallaj. 

From Rumi he inherits the doctrine that the soul must burn its veils to unveil God ; from Hafez, the audacity to seek union through joy.

Rumi's verse, '' Az khudi ba knudi raw, ta beh khuda rasi,'' [ From the self, travel through the self, until you reach God ] anticipates the whole structure of Iqbal's Khudi.

This spiritual publishing is dedicated to esteemed Founder Haly and Family.