How many books allama Iqbal written in urdu
In this page you will get detail information that how many books Iqbal written in urdu . allama Iqbal was a muslim philosopher, author, and politician. His poetry is considered to be among the greatest if the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideas for the muslims of British-ruled India is widely regarded as having animated the impulse for the Pakistan Movement.
Iqbal’s poetic works are written primarily in Persian rather thatn Urdu. Among his 12,000 verses of poetry , abouth 7,000 verse are in Persian.
Iqbal’s urdu poetry collection is available in four books.
Bang-i-Dara | 1924 |
Bal-e-Jibril | 1935 |
Zarb-i-Kalim | 1936 |
Armaghan-e-Hijaz | 1938 |
Bang-i-Dara
The book is named :The call of the Marching Bell” it is a bell that people used to ring in old times to awaken the travellers that now it is time to move on to their next destination, this book has the same purpose to awaken the Muslims of Hindustan and remind them that this is time for them to move on.
Bal-e-Jibril
Bal-i-Jibril is regarded as the peak of Iqbal’s Urdu poetry. It consists of ghazels, poems, quatrains, epigrams and advised the nurturing of the vision and intellect necessary to foster sincerity and firm belief in the heart of the ummah and turn its members into true believers.
Zarb-i-Kalim
Therefore, the word Kaleem refers to Moses in literature. In the Bible Exodus 3 refers to this incidence. In Quran the reference is in 4:164. Therefore, the translation of Zarb-e-Kaleem would be strike of (the staff) if Moses.
Armaghan-e-Hijaz
The title means “Gift from the Hijaz. He had long wished to undertake the journey to the Arabian Peninsula to perform the Hajj and to visit the tomb of Muhammad (PBUH), but was prevented from doing so by continuous illness during the last years of his life.
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