Why Allama Iqbal Opposed Khilafat Movement..Read & Unlearn
Allama Iqbal had reservations regarding Institution of Khilafat as well as Khilfat Movement yet Pakistani Public & Private Textbooks not ready to acknowledge it. Even some of our anchors and columnists have less knowledge about Iqbal. There is no place of reservations regarding misleading Khilafat Movement by Allama Iqbal and M A Jinnah. The piece is taken from Khuram Ali Shafique's book which is third in series of unusual biography of Allama Iqbal in 6 volumes. Iqbal academy, Lhore is publishing this series written by Shafique of Karachi. There is a reference of a poetic piece of Iqbal and a letter written by Iqbal to his brother Atta. In his poetic piece Iqbal called Ottoman Khilafat a shame for Muslims and Islamic thoughts. It was a verdict of Iqbal against King-ships. As Iqbal was against Kingship so why would he support its revival. Iqbal supported Atta turk not only in his prose writings but also in his poetry yet Rightest and orthodox forces in Pakistan are remain reluctant to accept pro-Attaturk Iqbal. You may read an article Allama Iqbal in Favour of Ataturk’s Secularism . In his letter Iqbal explained his reasons to resigned from Khilafat Committee Punjab , wrote about bad behaviors of Khilafat committee members and criticized their over sentimental role.
In his seminal work The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Iqbal wrote:
http://e.dunya.com.pk/detail.php?date=2013-08-08&edition=LHR&id=525949_49315321“Such is the attitude of the modern Turk, inspired as he is by the realities of experience, and not by the scholastic reasoning of jurists who lived and thought under different conditions of life. To my mind these arguments, if rightly appreciated, indicate the birth of an International ideal, which forming the very essence of Islam, has been hitherto overshadowed or rather displaced
by Arabian Imperialism of the earlier centuries in Islam.”
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