اقبال اور ترقی پسند تحریک ایک جائزہ

Abstract

The life and works of Allama Muhammad Iqbal has been a topic of great debate among laureates, critics, scholars and readers as well. He had spent a life more than a poet. His life and his poetry and prose has been pen down, admired and criticized by numerous authors, writers and scholars though the dimensions of his life and works seem endless. Therefore critics have a infinite ground to study his philosophical, religious, social, economical, mystical, cultural, political and metaphysical thoughts. The present article is about progressive movement and its connection with Iqbal. Iqbal gave number of clues in his poetry and prose about social and economical progress of the Muslims of India and also for the deprived classes of the society. In this way question arises in the mind that what motivated Iqbal to write on the laborers and workers? Was he really a progressive poet of his time? Why  Iqbal did not stay alongside with the progressive writers of his age? The article also narrates the advent  of the progressive movement and relates it with Allama Iqbal.