Fans of the great poet Allama Iqbal in London were in store for a rare treat when Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa – a contemporary translation’ by Professor Muhammad Sharif Baqa was launched on Monday ...
(Why should I play the part of the loser and refrain from seeking what I can gain? Shikwa is an outstanding composition, consisting of 31 stanzas with six verses each, beautifully highlighting Islamic ...
“Why must I forever lose, forever forgo profit that is my due, Sunk in the gloom of evening past, no plans for the morrow pursue. Why must I all attentive be to the nightingale's lament, Friend, am I ...
It is a hundred years since Muhammad Iqbal first recited Shikwa (Taking Issue) at a gathering of the Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam in Lahore in 1909. Through the tumultuous century that succeeded this ...
oetry in South Asia has rarely been confined to the page. Long before printed books or recorded cassettes, verse lived and moved through sound; spoken, sung and memorised. Most poets reached the ...
LAHORE: Allama Iqbal’s grandson Dr Muneeb Iqbal is livid, and rightly so. It all started from an audio recording of Allama Iqbal’s legendary poem ‘Shikwa’ in what was claimed to be the Poet of the ...
“Why must I forever lose, forever forgo profit that is my due, Sunk in the gloom of evening past, no plans for the morrow pursue. Why must I all attentive be to the nightingale's lament, Friend, am I ...
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