The 78th death anniversary of national poet Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal is being observed on Thursday all over the country, local media reported.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877 in Sialkot. He is also considered one of the most important figures in literature with literary works in both Urdu and Persian languages. Asrar-e-Khudi, Payam-i-Mashriq, Bang-i-Dara, Bal-i-Jibril, Zarb-i Kalim and Armughan-e-Hijaz were amongst his best works.
He is also recognised as Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times. Iqbal is known as Shair-e-Mushriq meaning Poet of the East. He is also called Muffakir-e-Pakistan (“The Inceptor of Pakistan”) and Hakeem-ul-Ummat (“The Sage of the Ummah”) and is credited with sparking the pan-Islamic thought among Muslims of the subcontinent.
Various social, political and cultural organizations will hold special programmes to pay homage to the poet. He passed away in Lahore on April 21, 1938.