tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751964279420308191.post8603688130122486305..comments2024-02-26T12:53:35.542+05:00Comments on The Republic of Rumi Blog: The Election Aftermath: an Iqbal Studies Perspective Khurram Ali Shafiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15329916182280619617noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751964279420308191.post-20127068065492487092013-08-11T22:40:01.692+05:002013-08-11T22:40:01.692+05:00Iqbal was in a sense a reactionary poet But we sti...Iqbal was in a sense a reactionary poet But we still love him as he was one of us.His poetry in its very essence is very divine in nature ,it sooth the ears and warm the hearts.To be realistically speaking currently in Pak we don't need reactionary politics but the politics of people like Gulen of turkey.Which has much more depth and much more deep thought to it.<br />All that said,Iqbal is still my favorite poet and inspirational philosopher who has influenced so many generations. saadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10449116897539333732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751964279420308191.post-71127690182417566762013-07-05T01:36:40.282+05:002013-07-05T01:36:40.282+05:00"We should not feel embarrassed by our diffic..."We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them."<br />-Alain de Botton, "The Consolations of Philosophy" Ch.Consolation for DifficultiesQuills and Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05739441161511789199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751964279420308191.post-37218411369797830852013-05-20T18:39:21.843+05:002013-05-20T18:39:21.843+05:00Greetings,
Thank you very much for this article. ...Greetings,<br /><br />Thank you very much for this article. In it are powerful statements of the potential of a society to evolve. Particularly powerful are the pointers that social consensus and democracy are not foreign to the priniciples of Islam. These principles need not, therefore, be labeled as "borrowed," which only sets them up to be fought.<br /><br />The descriptions of universal agreement (alongside society being like an organism) should really be given deep consideration. I like that you've highlighted how two (or more), seemingly incompatible, stances can be brought together into something new. It's a method of resolving (seeming) conflict. <br /><br />Follett would have recogized this, as she held that there are three main modes of resolving conflict: domination, compromise, and integration. It is integration of two (or more) views, and thus creating a new dynamic, that this article highlights so well. <br /><br />Thanks again for this.<br /><br />All good wishes,<br /><br />robertroberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11393402288038226179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751964279420308191.post-21737362483245004382013-05-20T11:00:49.010+05:002013-05-20T11:00:49.010+05:00What I understood from the quote of 2nd Caliph, th...What I understood from the quote of 2nd Caliph, the democracy in "Islamic Republic" of Pakistan is null and void since it is a partial expression. We, in Pakistan exercise the Islamic democracy only as label. In fact, it is an extension of Western democracy, for which Iqbal says:-<br /><br />دیو استبداد جمہوری قبا میں پاے کوب<br />تو سمجھتا ہے یہ آزادی کی ہے نیلم پری<br />مجلس آئین و اصلاح و رعایات و حقوق<br />طب مغرب میں مزے میٹھے، اثر خواب آوری<br />گرمی گفتارِ اعضائے مجالس، الاماں<br />یہ بھی اک سرمایہ داروں کی ہے جنگ زرگری<br /><br />In the West the people rule, they say:<br />And what is this new reign?<br />The same harp still, the same strings play<br />The despots’ old refrain;<br />In Demos-dress let tyranny’s<br />Old demon-dance be seen,<br />Your fancy calls up Liberty’s<br />Blue-mantled fairy queen!<br />Those Parliaments and their reforms,<br />Charters and Bills of Rights—<br />The Western pharmacopoeia swarms<br />With opiate delights<br /><br />نغمۂ بیداریِ جمہور ہے سامانِ عیش<br />قصۂ خواب آور اسکندر و جم کب تلک<br /><br />To those drowsy tales of Jamshid and Sikander for how long<br />Will you listen, now men’s joy is in democracy’s new song?<br /><br />الکشن، ممبری، کونسل، صدارت<br />بنائے خوب آزادی نے پھندے<br /><br />Election, membership, council, presidency<br />The nooses of independence are very strange<br /><br />ہم نے خود شاہی کو پہنایا ہے جمہوری لباس<br />جب ذرا آدم ہوا ہے خود شناس و خود نگر<br />کاروبار شہریاری کی حقیقت اور ہے<br />یہ وجود میر و سلطاں پر نہیں ہے منحصر<br />مجلس ملت ہو یا پرویز کا دربار ہو<br />ہے وہ سلطاں، غیر کی کھیتی پہ ہو جس کی نظر<br />تو نے کیا دیکھا نہیں مغرب کا جمہوری نظام<br />چہرہ روشن، اندروں چنگیز سے تاریک تر<br /><br />We ourselves have dressed imperialism in the garb of democracy<br />When man has grown to be a little self-conscious and self-observant.<br />The true nature of the system of imperialism lies elsewhere:<br />It depends not on the existence of an individual leader of a king.<br />Be it a national assembly of the court of Parviz,<br />Whoever casts a covetous eye on other’s harvest is a king.<br />Hast thou not observed the democratic system of the West?<br />With a brilliant exterior, its interior is darker than Genghis’s.<br />Muhammad Numan Chishtihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842577037575555noreply@blogger.com