My dad showed me this one old antique-looking book he pulled out of the shelf in our study earlier. He told me my grandfather recorded down all of Allama Iqbal’s poetry in that book throughout his life. Yea my granddad was like a determined scholar from his villiage and I was really amazed when I saw this book. I can’t read any of the urdu, which is quite a shame. And even if I could read it, I still probably wouldn’t be able to understand most of it anyways. Yea so it’s just hundreds of pages of small writing in with an ink-pen of shairs and quotes by Iqbal.
sigh Well he died before I was even born which is quite a bummer because I’m sure he’d have been a cool person to hang out with.
So, here’s what it looks like. I was really careful while taking these pictures and flipping through the book because it’s so old and I didn’t want to break it :(.
**Anyways, so here it is. Iqbaliyat by my grandfather himself: Abdul Ghani I love you dada abbu **
Front Cover: My dad re-made the front cover since the original one was all torn up.
First few pages: Title page and table of contents, i believe.
…and this is what the rest of the book is. Page after page of Iqbal’s shairs in my grandfather’s very own handwriting :). I’m not sure if you all can read this or not, but if you are able to read something, please translate some for me :).
That’s some great stuff… Iqbal the great! :k: Lovely handwriting your granddad had Aapkey aur merey dada abbu kahiN ek hi to nahiN they? Same name… :halo:
Phati: you asked me not to quote otherwise I would have quoted each one of them. you are right. This is amazing. I am a fan of Iqbal too but I may not know even a little bit about his poetry for people have written thesis and received doctorate degrees on his poetry. Your grand father seemed to be one of those who read every word of Iqbal. I see Asraar-e-Khudi in your images. I love that. I see the titles of all of his books at one place. I only own Baang-e-Dara and Baal-e-Jibreel. I will love to get a hold of Armaghaan-e-Hijaaz and Zarb-e-Kaleem.
no its not the writing but the lingo .. i think 70% of the words are in persian or arabic
ive seen some of Iqbal's books in real at my grand paa's house like
BANGE DARA
BALE GIBRIL
ZARBE KALIM
JAVED NAMA
.. most of u in pakistan might know him .. name was MIRZA ADEEB and matric course urdu book got some of his stories in them ex: DASTEK knock
p/s: my dad made me go to a friend painter to learn this writing b4 my matric exams .. I SWEAR .. we started of with that half edged EAGLE pen .. it was bare fun though. GOOD OOOOLD DAYS !!!
haha woaaa loll yea i have no idea what you’re talking about at the end all that Bang-eDara and Asraar-e-Khudi, but sure sounds interesting. You want me to send you a photocopy? of the whole book? it’s like 500 pages! i can probably scan certain pages or something for you if you’d like. i’m glad you liked it. i’ll bring it with me next time i come to jackson heights.
^ Don't tell me about where my ancestors were from. Yes I am Jatt. My father's villiage is about an hour from sialkot in narowal, punjab. right near the indian border. Our ancient ancestors migrated from Iraq to northeastern Pakistan.
If you'd like to think that my roots are a bunch of "bull****" then frankly, you can kiss my ass.
I’m not Indian . I just have some ancestors that migrated to Pakistan from Iraq. Whether this wild side newbie chooses to believe it or not is his choice.
Yea so it’s just hundreds of pages of small writing in with an ink-pen of shairs and quotes by Iqbal.
I love you dada abbu 
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Aapkey aur merey dada abbu kahiN ek hi to nahiN they? Same name… :halo:
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it’s like 500 pages! i can probably scan certain pages or something for you if you’d like. 
. I just have some ancestors that migrated to Pakistan from Iraq. Whether this wild side newbie chooses to believe it or not is his choice.