I shall, therefore, raise no question as to the form and content of his poetry, and shall pronounce no judgment on his works of art, except in so far as it is necessary for the development of my subject.
One, who writes on a thinker’s theory of aesthetics, has to confine himself to only two questions. First: what is his theory of beauty? And second: what is his theory of art in general? Therefore, in considering the genesis of iqbal’s aesthetic, I shall devote all my attention to these two questions. In the section that follows, I shall confine myself to the first of these two questions and in the next to the second.
IQBAL’S THEORY OF BEAUTY
Allama Muhammad iqbal was undoubtedly a genius and one of the greatest poets of the world. He was a gifted man, like a healthy seed who has to depend for its development on the soil and the moisture from which it dras its elements of growth. The tallest oak, no less than the tiny seeding is rooted in the soil from which it springs. like every other thinker iqbl was a child of his age and his thoughts grew out of the thoughts of previous thinkers. He gathered the entire harvest of eastern and western philosophy and art. But this doesn’t mean that he left the thoughts of his predecessors where he found it. What he gathered from others became the foundation upon which he built the statly edifice of his own system. Just as in the case of other great thinkers, so in his, “all previous thought became transfigured under the light of his genius.”
He describes his love for ALLAH and for nature in his poetry. As in this one,
چھپا یا ھسن کو اپنے کلیم اللھ سے جس نے
وھی ناز افرین ھے جلوہ پیرا نازنینون مین
new thoughts by a youngster for pakistan
