Mahtab-i Sham-i Sharq

A lawyer by profession and an Urdu and Persian poet by vocation, Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) is the spiritual father of Pakistan. Born in Sialkot, he received his pre-college education in his hometown, after which he went to study in Lahore. In 1905, after several years of teaching (Arabic, English and philosophy) in Lahore, he travelled to Cambridge to study philosophy and law. Two years later, he...