Some people say that the relationship existed and denounced by the right-wingers after 1947 as Attiya faizy was a liberal lady (not wearing niqaab - an unacceptable practice in those days). I know people will come and give examples of Begum Rana Liaquat Ali and Mohtarma Fatima Jinah, etc who didn’t wear niqaab… but again Iqbal got a special and ideological status so relating such a liberal lady with him would be difficult for those people who wanted to portray Iqbal’s poetry as pure religious matter.
If that is a propaganda, what objectives could be obtained from this?
On a side note, a love relationship (which couldn’t be ended in marriage for some reason) is a personal matter and IMO it doesn’t affect the personality like Iqbal.
PS: This thread is just for knowing the facts and by no way intended for hurting any ones feelings. I myself is great fan of Iqbal’s poetry
Allama Iqbal, during his European stay (1905/1908,)spent some memorable days with aatiya faizi. They frequently met.
I read somewhere that if we read Atiya Faizi’s diaries, we observe that she mentions Iqbal in a way one mentions a lover and not just a friend.
And I have read that iqbal wrote a letter to her in which he described his thoughts very candidly. This letter is mentioned by many commentators including Iqbal’s biographer Abdul-Majeed Salik in “Zikr-e-Iqbal”. The letter became one of the most talked about of all the letters Iqbal ever wrote.
aaj main aik news chanel pe Iqbal ki fikar pe program dekh raha tha. Jis ma iqbal k nazryat k baray mukhtalif experts opinion dikhai. Os mai iqbal ki , tehzib, afghanis, aurat, aur mullaiat k bar baray mai nazryat k mutalaq questions keay. Lekn iqbal ki be shumar shayri maghrabi tehzib ko apnay k nuqsanat , aur muslim ummah ki jammiat jesi soch per mabni ha. Lekn onhon ne kisi bhi expert of iqbaliat se aik bhi aisa question nahi kia. Agr aik showbiz k danshwar ki raye li to ki mazhbi rehnuma se q nahi li.
Media has become a biased entity.
yes Media acts according to trends. In Zia Regime, they used to play ’ Loh bhi tu qalam bhi tu’ in Muneeba Shaikh’s voice and in Musharaaf’s era Shabnam Majeed sung ‘La phir ek bar wohi bada o jaam ae saqi’ before drunkard ministers