Did Allama Iqbal suffer from Bipolar personality disorder or Split Personality as he has so many paradoxes? By Naeem Khan CSP
Why did he put new wine into old bottles? Why not new bottles as well?
For instance:
He praises Karl Marx but gets the title of Sir from the Imperialist or Capitalist Brittain! He also denounces Democracy.
He admires India as a nightingale of the garden of India but also extols PanIslam from Kashghar to Neil! And against the collectivism of Islam, he also promotes Khudi based on Individualism.
He tries to reconstruct Islam though he was not a Prophet and Islam was completed by God.
He admires Nietzsche but Nietzsche declared God to be dead.
He's considered as the dreamer of Pakistan and proponent of Muslims' separatism but he also says:
Mazhab nahin sikhata aapas mei bair rakhna,
Hindi hai ham vatan hai Hindustan hamara
(Religion doesn’t teach divisiveness.
I am an Indian, my country is India.)
He gave idealism to the world but he himself was totally shattered, disillusioned and disenchanted especially at the end of his life
Duniya ki mehfilon se ukta gaya hu ya rab
Kya lutf anjuman ka jab dil hi bujh gaya ho
(I am tired of the world’s gatherings, dear Lord
There is no pleasure in company when the heart has lost its light.)
He appeared modern but he was a fundamentalist as he says
According to the law of Islam there is no distinction between the Church and the State.” (‘Political Thought in Islam’; 1908)
He extolled Karl Marx but also said:
“Both nationalism [secularism] and atheistic socialism, at least in the present state of human adjustments, must draw upon the psychological forces of hate, suspicion, and resentment which tend to impoverish the soul of man and close up his hidden sources of spiritual energy.” (The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam; 1934).
Participated in democratic politics but also said:
“Democracy is a form of government in which people are counted but not weighed.”
But again contradicted himself
“Democracy, then, is the most important aspect of Islam regarded as a political ideal.” (‘Islam as a Moral and Political Ideal’; 1909)
He's considered as one of the founders of Pakistan but he advocated United India.
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