The ceremony was held on Monday where a group of Khorasan Razavi’s poets and cultural activists participated; among the notable guests was Pakistan’s consular-general, where he believed that Iqbal Lahori was the ‘connecting ring’ of both Iran and Pakistan; “Iqbal had believed in the unity of [Islamic] nations, which today would provide grounds for Pakistanis and Iranians to strengthen the cultural links to solve larger part of the problems in Islamic world,” said Yavar Abbas. “Allama Iqbal is one of the most influential figures of the Islamic world with influence extended to many great thinkers of the world of Islam,” he added.
“Iqbal, as a great philosopher, had a deep interest to Iran such that he had predicted Iran’s influence and role in the region and the world almost a century ago; Iqbal deeply believed that people in Iran and Pakistan should foster the pearl of cordial relations culturally,” emphasized the consulate-general.
“Pakistan commemorates annually this great poet-intellectual as the ‘Father of the Modern Pakistan,’ since his intellect was of global scope and his audience was all Muslims in particular and the world public in general; Iqbal specifically believed that Tehran would have acted as a Geneva of the east, in that it would function as a center of ideas and debates in the eastern world,” Abbas said.
“Iqbal’s thinking was not limited to a specific group or nation; his round character made him a politician, a philosopher, an intellectual, and a pioneer thinking,” he added.
Mahmoud Sadeqi, deputy of local Foreign Ministry mission to northeast of the country described Iqbal Lahori as a bridge connecting all Islamic countries; “this great intellectual had ideas appreciated globally; in today’s world where West has embarked on a campaign to defile the face of Islam, communicating the messages of peace by great figures as Lahori and Seyyed Jamaluddin Asadabadi Afghani would help counterbalance the western misguided efforts,” he told the ceremony.
Mohammad Iqbal Lahori, Pakistani Muslim poet, thinker, and politician, has many poems in Persian. He was the first thinker to present the theory of a Muslim country for Muslims of Indian Subcontinent. He is widely recognized as Pakistan’s ‘National Poet.’
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