Why Iqbal is craving in this shair?

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Re: Why Iqbal is craving in this shair?

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Kabhi Ae Haqiqat-e-Muntazir! Nazar Aa Libas-e-Majaz Mein
Ke Hazar Sajde Tarap Rahe Hain Meri Jabeen-e-Niaz Mein

Would that time arrive, O Anticipated Reality, Come to sight in ephemeral dress
As yearning are a thousand prostrations from my yielding crest

Commentary:

The request is one which is teaching us Tawheed through the diametric condition. A request is being made for the materialisation of Allah (SWT) in to the world, knowing this cannot happen. It is used to stress the** impatience of the seeker**, rather than being a statement of possibility.

Considering Iqbal was pro sufism when he wrote that shair, “impatience of the seeker” is answer of ‘why’ then.

Two references in hadith and Qur’an regarding the Ihsan dimension of the Deen and the Beatific Vision, both are invoked in this couplet.

‘Tell me about al-Ihsaan (goodness).’ He [the Prophet (s)] answered, ‘It is that you worship Allah as if you see Him. And even though you do not see Him, [you know] He sees you.’
Hadith Jibreel

[Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant,
Looking at their Lord.
Surat Al-Qiyamah [75:22-23] - The Noble Qur’an - ??? ???

The prostrations are as if they are a burden that must be poured forth in a relief of the pressure from being absent and veiled from the All-Mighty. They are also being presented as an offering of the seeker who refers to his forehead as submitting/gift giving that has been depicted as “yielding”.

This couplet recognises the true condition of humanity which is one of yearning to be back with our Creator.

I am not denying the message in hadith but I would like to know what autority has made Ihsaan a dimension of Islam?
I am also unable to understand how could you imply unity of being from the verse and the hadith and/or the shair?
I wanted to reply your example of closer than jugular vein in another thread but that thread was closed dont know for what reason.
That verse refers to all-encompassing knowledge of Allah (s.w.t.) and does not imply physical closeness.

Although Iqbal remained pro sufism for some part of his life, but he was not one of proponents of unity of the being. He categorically declared that this idea is deadly poison for Ummah.