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This great poem was written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and active political leader. Iqbal was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri brahmins but his grandfather Sahaj Ram Sapru, had to embrace Islam. In 1904, Iqbal, then a young lecturer at …

This series of articles are for those readers who would like to get acquainted with the essence of Indian thought and its evolution. Religions that originated in the Indian soil (i.e. Hindu, Jain, Buddha and Sikh etc.) may have small differences but are not too different in their basic principles …