The Effects of Iqbal’s Thinking on Muslims

Iqbal wishes to make the Muslims realize that slavery has made man fall from the height to the depths of despair. He has painted with words the hateful images of slavery and attractive portraits of freedom. Iqbal’s realistic portrail of the West brought the East out of a feeling of inferiority complex. The effect of Iqbal’s poetry and his thought is in the concrete shape of the creation of Pakistan itself. After almost fifty years of Iqbal’s death, the revolution in Iran is the fulfillment of his dreams, and the concept of the unity of community was presented. Iqbal has highlighted this concept of unity of the Muslim Ummah stating that:

Individuals are powerful when united, when alone they have no power

Waves within an ocean are powerful and without powerless

Iqbal was certain that the Muslim Ummah if united would certainly be successful. He expresses his hopefulness in one of his verses and the gist is:

Iqbal is not disappointed by his barren land

If cultivated properly, this land is very fertile

He expresses this very idea in another style:

The arrival of the morning is evident from the disappearing of stars,

The sun rising is evidence of removal of darkness

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