How true is story that our beloved poet used to engage in a bit drink shrink?
anyone hear this?
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How his work is effected if he did?
Will drink shrink make his master pieces any less?
As far as I am concerned, good for him if he used to indulge.
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Thori bauhat chuski laganay main kia harj hay ;)
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That wasnt the q!
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There is no conclusive evidence but then there hardly is, in this kind of cases.
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Looks like you got your answer stonecold. What next?
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yes he used to drink.
Source please?
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Its irrelevant either way. How many of us still consume food cooked with a touch of wine when dining out?
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^^
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yeh i got an answer..although a source would be nice!
What yu talking bout , touch of wine with food..? how can you knowingly eat at these places!!! ?
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try to get them and read , you will get your answer !
Letters and diary of Atiya Faizi. Translation by Zia uddin Ahmad Burni. Iqbal Academy, karachi, Pakistan, 1969 .
Zikr-e-Iqba by Abdul Majeed Salik, Chaman Book Depot, Delhi, India
Iqbal and his elder son, Aftab Iqbal by Rasheeda Aftab, Ferozesons, KHI , Pakistan.
Apna garebaN chaak by Javed Iqbal, Sang-e-Meel Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan.
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better idea would be to just make dua for him and rest who have passed away that Allah swt give all of them a place in janat. Ameen
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Too many mullahs on GS man.
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perhaps not related with the thread...
But Iqbal has a street named after him in Heidelberg (Germany).
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He did his PhD in Germany, no?
Yeah he studied in Heidelberg and Munich.
He got his inspiration from the great German philosopher Nietsche.
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I don't know and I don't want to know ( though alot of my Pakistani teachers used to say that he stoped drinking after his inclination towards religon, which seems evident from his poetry).
But I do know one fact. It would be difficult for the coming generations to believe that such a man existed in flesh and blood in the 20TH century.
I would like to dedicate the following words of Shakespeare to him. (Just a tribute, don't take it in too much depth)
"He was a man, take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again. There never was such a beauty in another man, nature made him and broke mould"
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Yeah he studied in Heidelberg and Munich.
He got his inspiration from the great German philosopher Nietsche.
And Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. Here in Turkey people in Konya (City of Rumi) respect Iqbal alot. Most of the Irani people say the following word after I tell them that I am a Pakistani;
"Iqbal!!"