Abstract
Armaghān-e Hijāz (The Gift of Hijaz) is the
posthumous work of Muhammad Iqbal, published a
few months after his death in 1938. This poetic
work remains rather incomplete, because we find
blank pages in the original text by Iqbal. In fact
Iqbal wanted to take this work with him as a gift on
the pilgrimage he had been planning for a long time
but in the last years of his life, his poor health did
not permit him to undertake the journey.
Armaghān-e Hijāz is Iqbal’s only bilingual book
with its first part in Persian and the second in Urdu.
This translation deals with the first, selecting
quatrains from the Persian part of the work.
Thematically, we find that Iqbal divided these
quatrains into the five sections; A respectful
address to God, A respectful address to the Prophet,
Address to the Muslim Ummah, Address to
Humanity and Address to the lovers of God. The
dominant theme of Armaghān-e Hijāz is the love of
God and of the Prophet (peace be upon him) which
stimulates all of his poetic thought. The title of the
book refers to the region of Hijāz, where lie the two
holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. Here we see
Iqbal humbly submitting to God that through the
quality and worth of his prostration, He can see
whether Iqbal’s soul is alive or not. For Iqbal, being
alive means that the human soul is conscious of his
raison-d’être in this world
Dr. Saleha Nazeer . (2012) IQBAL’S FINAL ADDRESS TO GOD AND THE PROPHET, Iqbal Review, Volume , Issue 1.
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