{"id":30413,"date":"2023-11-10T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=30413"},"modified":"2023-11-10T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:18:48","slug":"iqbal-thoughts-influence-the-entire-south-asia-says-pak-envoy-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30413","title":{"rendered":"Iqbal thoughts influence the entire South Asia, says Pak envoy to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington DC: Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to the United States Masood Khan said that Allama Iqbal was great poet who dreamed of Pakistan and we are a manifestation of his dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a special ceremony to commemorate Iqbal Day, the birth anniversary of Allama Mohammad Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan, Masood Khan said that Iqbal was a poet par excellence and his thoughts has influenced the whole of South Asia, Afghanistan and in Persia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIqbal dreamed of Pakistan and we are a manifestation of his dream. He is our ideological compass and our lodestar. When we are looking for direction where we ought to go, we refer to Iqbal because he gave us the ideological basis for the state of Pakistan,\u201d said Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Allama Iqbal was a philosopher and his philosophy was not confined to the subcontinent. \u201cHe looked at the cosmos. He looked at the universe and how it was evolving in its spiritual and physical dimensions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating his deep understanding and knowledge of Quran and Islam, Masood Khan said that Allama Iqbal was one of the most authentic interpreters of the Quran and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to understand the Quran in the contemporary context, we will have to study Iqbal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that many clerics and religious scholars cited Iqbal when they wanted to elaborate some complex thoughts in Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIqbal was a universalist. He was not a parochial poet. His poetry is a universal heritage; a universal legacy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Masood Khan highlighted that scholars from all over the world travel to Pakistan to discuss Iqbal\u2019s thought. \u201cWe as Pakistanis should be proud of having such a genius who guided us in the formative years of Pakistan. And he propounded this idea which manifested itself in the state of Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers who spoke on the occasion included Ghazanfar Hashmi, Anwar Iqbal, Dr. Aseef Qadeer, Ex-Senator Akber Khawaja, Faiz Rehman and Riaz Niazi.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers dilated upon various dimensions and perspectives of Iqbal\u2019s thought, as a poet and philosopher, and drew its relevance to the contemporary world.<\/p>\n<p>A photo exhibition was also arranged by the embassy of Pakistan in collaboration with International Academy of Letters USA, Sadequain Foundation USA and Sadequain Gallery of Chicago to pay tributes to iconic calligrapher, painter and poet Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, TI PP SI NI, often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador thanked International Academy of Letters USA, Sadequain Foundation USA and Sadequain Gallery of Chicago for partnering with the Embassy of Pakistan in organizing the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC: Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to the United States Masood Khan said that Allama Iqbal was great poet who dreamed of Pakistan and we are a manifestation of his dream. Addressing a special ceremony to commemorate Iqbal Day, the birth anniversary of Allama Mohammad Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan, Masood Khan said that Iqbal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30414,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30413\/revisions\/30414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}