Dr Mohammad Iqbal

A film is about the great Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal He is reminisced by his son Justice Javed Iqbal who says The centenary of AllamaIqbal my father which is being celebrated in India and Pakistan shows how his memory is still held in the two countries Iqbals TaranaEHind or the Song of India became the battle song of freedom The poet sang Religion does not teach us to hate each other We are all Indians and our homeland is this Hindustan of oursGandhiji in one of his Urdu letters wrote I have sung this song of Iqbal hundreds of times in jail Iqbal was a poet of the revolution who penned innumerable impassioned poems during his life time which ended on April 21 1938 when the sun of his glory was at its zenith