Of course! No one's suggesting that Iqbal was anti-Pakistan.
Its only the concept of having pakistan#1 and the Islam#2 which is being refuted.
You do understand that loving your country, and being a nationalist are two totally seperate things. Prophet (sas) loved Makkah but he wasn't a nationalist...and when the time he came he fought his own people and tribesman in Badr and Uhod.
Oh Bhai,
the concept of "nation state" did not exist among the nomadic tribes until late 19th early 20th century.
Nothing against Arabs. Just look at Native Indians (or Red Indians). They didn't have the concept of nation state either. You go to the aborigines of Australia. They didn't have the concept of nation state.
Please understand, there is no point in going back to Mohammad pbuh's time and place to look for things that could not possibly exist in that society.
It is like to trying to find the example of "snow boots" wearing Arab tribes. That ain't gonna happen. Snow fall DID NOT exist in the areas where most of the Arab culture has evolved.
Here is how societies "generally" evolve.
- tree dwelling primitives
- Cave men
- families
- tribes (small and relatively unorganized)
- Big organized tribes (who may control lessor tribes through force or taxation)
- city states
- nation states
Thus Arab culture of Mohammad pbuh's time was somewhere at #4 or #5. Therefore we cannot find examples for #6 or #7 from the culture back then.