The Historical Allahabad Address of Allama Mohammad Iqbal

The Historical Allahabad Address of Allama Mohammad Iqbal

The annual meeting of Muslim League in 1930 was held in Allahabad. The Islamic Philosopher, Allama Mohammad Iqbal presided. Referring to the history of Hindu-Muslim relations he explicitly alluded that in his opinion the only solution of the Hindu-Muslim problem in India was to establish an independent separate sovereign country consisting of the Areas where the Muslims were in a majority, especially the North-Western Part of India. This country would represent the Universal Brotherhood of the Man as per Islam. This was a crying need of the downtrodden humanity then. Allama Mohammad Iqbal was very popular among the Muslim youth due to his inspiring nationalistic poetry. His poetry had fired the imagination of the youth and they had been yearning to revive the glory of Islam in India for the last many years. The idea of Allama Mohammad Iqbal to set up a separate Muslim country created a fresh zeal among them and they launched a movement to achieve this Goal. The young students in England also started a campaign on these lines. M/s Chaudhri Rehmat Ali, Aslam Khattak, Inayatullah Khan, Shaikh Muhammad Sadiq and Khawaja Tariq Rahim were in the fore-front. They coined a new word “Pakistan” by joining the initial letters of the North-Western Muslim Provinces as the name for this New Muslim Country.