Prof. Salahuddin Mohammad Shamsuddin, eminent scholar,
delivered a lecture on Allama Iqbal at the residence of Mr. Nasrullah Khan, Pakistan’s High
Commissioner to Singapore on the evening of 11.11.2017, says a press release
received here today from Signapore
The
programme was organised by Pakistan High Commission to pay tribute to Allama
Iqbal, the sub-continent’s great poet-philosopher on occasion of his 140th
death anniversary. Dr. Salah ud din
Mohammad Shamsuddin came especially from
Brunei Dar us Salam for this session devoted to Iqbal’s legendary poetic and
philosophic work.
The
discourse mostly centred around Iqbal’s concept of Khudi. Mr. Nasrullah Khan, High Commissioner,
highlights in his introductory remarks, that to understand man in Iqbal’s
poetry and philosophy, we have to take the route of the Khudi- , selfhood or
Falsafa-i-Khudi .
Replying
to questions from those present, Dr. Salah ud din explained that Iqbal’s “Khudi” symbolizes realization of self, i.e.
recognizing one’s ego/spirit, and the divine strands that connect creation with
the creator. Khudi, as Allama held, means to realize that man carries a
particle of divine light within him whose discovery can raise him to the zenith
of creation and whose negligence can bring him to its nadir.
On the occasion, messages of the President and
Prime Minister of Pakistan were read out by the Press Counsellor and the famous
“Khudi ka Sirr e Neha” was sung by one of the guests to the applause of all
present.
A
number of prominent Pakistani and Singaporeans lovers of poetry came to
gather on this literary night.
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