IQBAL'S SPIRITUAL INFERS : CROWN COLUMN

HUMANITY'S MASTER LEGISLATURE : POET IQBAL talked of affirmation of the self, under the long shadow of colonialism, is to speak of a metaphysics of resistance, on ethics of freedom and a politics of awakening.

It is to enter, not merely a field of poetry, but a battlefield of being, a struggle between submission and sovereignty, imitations and creativity, servitude and freedom.

Iqbal's KHUDI is no decorative mysticism, nor a pious withdrawal from the world. It is as Javed Majeed persuasively argues, a critique of the colonially constituted subject, a rebellion against the psychic and epistemic domestication that empire performed upon the colonised self.

Against this deformation of will, Iqbal raises what might be called a theo-poetic anthropology - a vision of the human as the locus of divine energy, capable of creation, transcendence and transformation.

His call is not to an atomised ego but to a disciplined and dynamic interiority, one that situates freedom as the ontological ground of self-realisation.

The self - for Iqbal, is not a psychological accident but the very axis of existence, where metaphysical freedom and ethical responsibility converge.

This Master Column as a mark of Honours for Dr. Allama Mohammed Iqbal in the best teachings and traditions for Humanity, continues to Part [2]. The World Students Society thanks Tahir Kamran.