Upon his return to Lahore in 1908, Iqbal established a law practice but primarily focused on producing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy, and religion. He is most renowned for his poetic compositions, including "Asrar-e-Khudi", "Rumuz-e-Bekhudi", and " Bang-e-Dara."
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), poet and philosopher known for his influential efforts to direct his fellow Muslims in British-administered India toward the establishment of a separate Muslim state, an aspiration that was eventually realized in the country of Pakistan.
Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilization across the world, but specifically in India; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.
Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) is one of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century. A poet, philosopher, and political visionary from Sialkot in British India, he devoted his intellectual life to one central question: what is the true nature of the human self, and how can it achieve its highest potential?
Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, earned a BA and an MA at the Government College Lahore, where he studied philosophy, English literature, and Arabic. From 1899 to 1903, he taught Arabic at the Oriental College. During that time, he wrote prolifically, and often his poems were written in Urdu.
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, fondly remembered as Allama Iqbal, was born in Sialkot on . He was educated at Sialkot and Lahore, and later at Cambridge.
Iqbal wrote both in Persian and Urdu, and is often regarded as the poet-philosopher of the East who addressed the Muslim ummah, believed in the philosophy of wahdatul wujood, and propounded the philosohy of khudi, or selfhood, which called for self-realisation and the discovery of the hidden talent with love and perseverance.