Ego: Meaning and Developmeht In Light of Allama Iqbal’s Lectures

Abstract
Ego enjoys a central place in Allama Iqbal's philosophical thoughts. His work, both in prose and poetry, is replete with the idea of ego. His usage of this very word in a positive sense has totally changed the hitherto negative connotation associated with it. Iqbal deems it essential to strengthen one's ego in order to consummate one's personality and to conquer the powers of nature. He stresses on ego so much that the fourth chapter of his magnum opus “The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam” contains the very issue of human ego, its freedom and immortality. An Egyptian scholar has translated Iqbal's six, out of seven, lectures into Arabic. He did not translate the fourth one which carried a discourse on ego. This article is a complementary effort to what was left untranslated by him.

الدكتور محمد جاويد . (2018) الأنا: مفهومه وتطوره في ضوء محاضرات العلامة محمد إقبال, Majallah Al-Qism Al-Arabi, Volume 25, Issue 1.
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