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To: JDinBaltimore who wrote (38891)	4/12/2001 1:56:58 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

WTF is that from? btw...if i'm right about the SOX/SUX it should come back and test ~577 minimum.

To: JDinBaltimore who wrote (38891)	4/19/2001 4:48:12 AM
From: The IB Dude	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Jdin, The insult of Allama Iqbal is akin to an affront of George Washington. Allama Iqbal was a man of integrity, honour, truthfulness and immense foresight, which led him to be named the “The Father of our Nation”. Comparing the words of my father to what distinguished Muslim scholar Fazlur Rahman once described "the most daring intellectual modernist the Muslim world has produced" is the greatest compliment my father can receive. But with all due respect, the words and opinions of my father in his thread cannot be compared to the genius of Allama Iqbal. “As the 20th century draws to a close, a painful truth is dawning upon the Muslim Ummah. Some of the greatest challenges confronting them, which engaged the finest Muslim thinkers at the beginning of the century, remain unresolved ---- the nature of Islamic renewal and the direction Islamic reform should take, the relationship of the Ummah to the West and to the rest of humanity, the character and content of an Islamic polity. Muhammad Iqbal addressed every one of these challenges in both prose and poetry, and he did so with courage and creativity, leaving a lasting impact upon Muslims everywhere. Iqbal's bold ideas covered the entire spectrum of Islamic philosophy, ranging from issues such as the religion's conception of what is eternal and what is ephemeral to matters such as law and rituals. He lamented the rigid and dogmatic interpretations of certain aspects of Islamic theology that had led to a fossilized attitude towards the religion. The Muslim masses, he felt, were in a stupor; they had to be awakened to rediscover the vigour and dynamism of pristine Islam. This demanded the re-examination and reconstruction of Muslim attitudes. While this endeavor occupied a lot of Iqbal's intellectual energies, he was also very concerned about the relationship between the East and the West. He admitted that a "good deal of the science and technology of the West was valuable and the East was to learn it and adopt it to eliminate poverty, squalor and disease, but the East must not repeat the mistake of worshipping material power as an end in itself." At the same time, Iqbal realized that "as the lopsided material progress of the West was unethical and unspiritual, so the religiosity of the East was a hollow and life-thwarting force. The realm of the spirit had to be rediscovered by the East as well as by the West." There is no need to emphasise that in his incisive analysis of the illnesses that plague East and West, as in his clarion call for Islamic renewal and reform, Iqbal strikes a chord with the contemporary mind. This is what makes him so relevant to the present. Indeed, even in his reflections on the real purpose of an Islamic polity, which is to realise the ultimate unity of humankind through human dignity and social justice, Iqbal appeals to the thinking Muslim of today. But Iqbal's appeal went beyond the brilliance of his intellect. More than anything else, it was his poetry that tugged at the heartstring of the Muslim masses. Whether it was metaphysics or mysticism, his beautiful poetry in Urdu and Persian was a powerful medium for conveying the deepest joys and sorrows of his soul. Poet, philosopher, social reformer and political activist, Iqbal was a multi-faceted genius in the tradition of Al-Razi, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali. Iqbal has also made a major contribution to the awakening of Asia after decades of colonial rule.”